One result cut against the old idea that apocalyptic believers simply stop caring about the future.
Instead, people who expected the end soon often supported stronger intervention, especially when they thought human actions were driving it.
That response challenges the simpler story that end-times believers only shrink their time horizon and stop investing in tomorrow.
There’s a flaw in the understanding here.
An Apocalypse is, in the minds of the believers, a great thing. It’s not really The End, it’s the end the current “bad world” and the start of a new and better world, even a utopia.
Collapse is not Apocalyptic, even if the collapsing part is shared. Some might argue that collapse of empires in the past was good, and there are valid arguments to be made on that. But that’s not the case now, there is nowhere for people to evacuate to from the collapsing global empire, and the climate getting hot and weird is going make even staying in place a problem. The only good world that follows is the one for unicellular life.