tldr; as captains of the Titanic they have known we hit an iceberg and we are going to sink. Their delusion is not that we wont sink, but that we can get off this planet fast enough with rockets and colonise Mars in time. So their actions are both playing the “everything is still possible” narrative in Hollywood and media outlets they own, while also amping up war rhetoric to distract us from the famines that are about to start in the next 5 years.

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Long version

Ok, I’ll try. I overestimated that this would be clear to most on Lemmy, but happy to share my thoughts behind creating this meme.

First off, it is happening. The first domino’s are falling, and there is nothing we can do to avert the death of billions in the next 2-3 decades. If you find that shocking, remember that if you’re halfway your life expectancy right now, you nearly witnessed the world population double in that half life time.

When I say the next line, don’t see at as a synonym to advocate for war. The only thing we can ‘do’ is start wars, and win them. Putin is already there, Netanyahu followed soon there after. Not to mention Sudan and Congo, though we prefer our wars to be about white people to keep the media clicks up.

Divide and Conquer

The rich and powerful have studied French revolutionary history and are very aware that these times are testing times for them too. They have a number of attack vectors to keep us in check. Their core mantra is essentially being the captain on the Titanic telling everyone they will be fine. They got the media bought up literally, so they can easily make us hate Russians or Trump or the Non-White-Skin-Colour-Of-They-Are-Eating-The-Cats™.

DJT was mostly installed because he just follows orders and didn’t want to go to jail, so he’s easily compromised, but they wanted him because he can provide smoke and mirrors the abolishment of the US constitution the easiest and fastest without too much questioning because of his cult of personality. Also he’s delightfully divisive. Then they will create more wars. Wars unite the peasants and wars help reduce population sizes. But most importantly wars distract. From what?

Not Change, but Apocalypse

Well, from their wealth inequality for one, but the Climate Armageddon that is about to hit us. This will happen a lot faster than predicted and a lot more severe too. Remember they control the media. They know how bad it will get and they have diluted climate change studies for decades. All the projections have been soft from day one. Even now, you can’t watch a mainstream climate change piece without it always ending with this tacky music and hopium voiceover in the end “the future is uncertain, but if we keep at it we might just have a brighter future for our children” (mentioning the children really works)

That’s why they were building bunkers in the late 90s and are all building penis rockets and thinking even dead cold Mars is a better option. This is not about becoming a multi planetary civilisation, this is about there are not enough lifeboats for all of us.

Faster and sooner than expected

The climate feedback loops have only been triggered in the last three years. They were almost completely omitted in the initial official climate reports for decades but I’m sure there was a higher priced climate report that did include what the effects of the climate feedback loops would be.

They also understand, as some commenters pointed out, that their lifestyle can only continue as long as we believe there’s a future and hope to one day achieve the same life standards as our parents.

There are other important factors that make them believe this is the final run such as the dwindling global oil reserves, the impact the climate apocalypse will have on the global food security etc

I’m not sure if that answers your why they would expect its collapse.

If it doesn’t, then it also won’t really explain their actions.

So, they expect collapse because they have had much more precise climate and civilisation collapse models privately funded for the better part of this century, the first ones were still public and publicly funded from the 80’s, nearly all of them were pointing to 2030 to 2040 as a critical point of inflection. I.e. they have known for at least 2 decades with a fairly high degree of certainty we have hit an iceberg. They also know there are not enough life rafts. And they know that if the current race wars are replaced by class wars, they are really not going to enjoy the rest of their lives.

It explains why they gave the POTUS king power last year, how they rigged it so their puppet would win, and how they are preparing everything for the establishment of the 4th Reich. War will distract us, war will cull our numbers and war will stimulate the endless growth economy, which will keep shrinking alarmingly once the famines start, because — unsurprisingly — endless economic growth never had much to do with innovation, intelligence, efficiency or clever marketing, but just a reflection on the batshit crazy population growth we’ve had since the end of WWII.

Famine is the biggest enemy of economic growth, war is its biggest accelerator.

Hope this explains it a bit better.