I implore all my fellow young nature-lovers and activists to consciously reject – wholesale – the corporate-led, techno-globalist future we are being sold. Such suggestions represent yet another extension of the reductionist thinking and scientific hubris that originally justified exploitation of the biosphere – it’s what got us into this mess in the first place.
Some interesting thoughts about what actions to prioritise as we head into the maelstrom.
“We need to overcome the serious delusion that industrial modernity is the only way.” Exactly! I’d go further and say: the serious delusion that industrial modernity is even a way at all. The truth is that it has no future. I won’t keep rattling on a length about The Long Descent, as usual. But the hard, clear fact is that multiple indicators are suggesting very convincingly that hitech industrial ‘civilisation’ is going to turn out to be a Single Giant Pulse Event in Earth’s history, which came and went, did a bit of superficial damage - though nothing like as bad as other disruptive incidents in the Earth’s long life-span - and then vanished again under the returning green tide, as Mam Gaia does her stuff yet again to re-fecundate her planet.
Those - heavily-reduced numbers - of hom sap who survive this upheaval will then find themselves faced with the returning garden Earth, in which it’s only ever necessary to walk about a bit and pick up food and other necessaries as you find them, growing wild and free: The ancient traditional way of getting a living, which can be further enhanced into a true green civilisation, as sketched out in the latter part of this article from Resilience, by using all the multifarious strands of sound permaculture: living in harmony with a bountiful nature, rather than trying enslave and brutally force it to our deluded will.
And speaking of delusions: waste no time on the likes of Kurzweil and Musk. The Long Descent is already in the process of flushing their toxic dreams.
The author of this Resilience piece is so right, too, about the fundamental unpredictability of our situation, at least in detail. Palaeontology alone makes it quite clear that Mam has multiple strategies, long proven in practice, for dealing even with gross perturbations of her Earth-peace. I simply don’t believe that she’s going to let the climate crisis get as bad as the worst Chicken Lilttle fantasies are adumbrating at the moment. It will be bad (though probably orders of magnitude less bad than the Chicxulub asteroid impact, and she re-fecundated wonderfully after that disaster), but it won’t be TEOTWAWKI; just the end of the runaway technosphere egregore as we’ve known it these past two/three centuries. And that can’t happen too soon.
Take away from this article the wonderful description towards the end of the forests of Australia immediately beginning to spring back from the wildfire disasters - as they do! Remember Surtsey too, rising from the Atlantic in fire and magma off the south coast of Iceland a few years back, wholly sterilised by the extreme vulcanic conditions which created, yet manifesting pioneer life-forms colonising it within WEEKS - sic! - of its rising, and now well on its way to being a newly-green piece of ocean landscape.
This is our true future. Hold such images in your Unbending Intents (qv), and make a serious, significant, worthwhile contribution to that process, as one of Mam’s Warriors, in spite of all your - false - learned helplessness! Cheers! Don’t despair! Keep bloody-well sluggin’!! 
PS: don’t forget bird-dinosaurs and - surprisingly - crocodilians, both of whom survived the asteroid collision. That was a very big hiccup in the life of the Earth, much bigger, I reckon, than anything we are going to trigger with our silliness. Yet those survivors are indicators of the remarkable amount even of multicellular life which did survive, and bounced back afterwards…
As Jim Lovelock says, the bulk of life on this planet, for most of its history, has been in the mono-cellular micro-organismic forms - as it still is! - which seem to be scarcely ruffled by such passing incidents, before getting back to re-filling all empty niches pronto. Ocean-floor volcanic-vent communities of living forms, anyone? Got to be pretty husky to survive - nay thrive! - in that environment. Yet we find that life-forms do.
As Rupert Sheldrake and others suggest, wherever we find knots of matter and energy in busy activity - in stars, for example! - there is a high probability of both life and its accompanying mind. Such conditions are legion, of course, so life is probably widely found. It’s just that “It is life, Jim, but not as we know it.” 
All of which philosophical musings are pretty small, cold comfort to all who are - still - fixated on the uniquely-aberrant modern Western scientism-asserted notion of us supposedly having just this one small, short, meaning-free life, with nothing to come after. The older, much more universally-endorsed idea, constantly eye-witness reported by the shamanic journeyers of traditional cultures, of immortal souls travelling through long series of life-packets - as Tom Campbell calls them - in service of the great purpose of Big Mind, actually makes the prospect of our current little local difficulty on planet Earth much less despair-causing. Try this ancient idea! Look into it! It helps. 
Yes! I just watched a little video by Dennis McKenna who described an experience that he had during an ayuhuasca ceremony. In that experience he heard a voice saying “you monkeys only think you run the show” and took it to mean that the beings that are really running this planet’s biosphere are the plants.
It’s time that we monkeys remember what we all used to know about our interconnected place on this living planet.