We feel it in our bones. A low-grade hum of anxiety that has become the soundtrack of our time. We see it in the headlines—another unprecedented flood, another political fracture, another species declared extinct. We feel it in the strange emptiness of a spring without bees, the dizzying heat of a summer that breaks all records. This isn't a preview. This is the main event. We are living in a time of collapse. But let's be very clear: collapse is not a single, Hollywood-style explosion. That...