Climate collapse as the prospect that cascading feedback loops cross tipping points beyond human capacity to reverse, producing civilizational-scale disruption in food systems, water availability, habitability, and political stability.
This is not speculation: it is the trajectory described by current emissions pathways and the observed behavior of tipping elements. The question is not whether the climate is destabilizing but how severe the destabilization becomes and what response is possible. The analysis that staying under 2°C was never plausible follows from examining the political and economic structures that produce emissions, not just the atmospheric physics.
The connection to hospicing humanity is direct: if the current form of industrial civilization is producing its own terminal conditions, the response may be care through that process rather than faith in its reform. This is not despair — it is the same insistence that anarcho-nihilism makes: action does not require optimism about outcomes. Climate justice adds the demand that those least responsible for the crisis not bear the greatest cost of its consequences.