Loyalty towards a system that has marched us straight to death isn't rational in the bigger picture.
I don't think we really have many options unfortunately. If everyone left the cities to go live in the woods, what would stop us from being conquered by a hostile nation? I have no doubt that the current model of society is on the brink of collapse and frankly I'm not sure what the large scale response should be towards that. We can't all be preppers unless a massive amount of people across the whole world die in tandem
I think if society as a whole adopted a prepper philosophy that might actually save us... but that's not going to happen. People aren't just going to change their attitudes and start acting responsibly with a long-term outlook.
I don't pretend to have the answers that will save us at this point - maybe nothing can. Solutions aside, it's clear the current system is an incredibly destructive failure.
I agree the article has several suggestions that I think are silly.
I think the point is that civilization has failed. We're now so far beyond fixing things that it's pretty much time to just watch the world burn. Perhaps during or after that process your only option may be to live in a hippy commune, but I doubt you'll be doing it to 'fix civilization'.
I expect we're all going to start dying in large numbers at some point soon. If everyone's the same, everyone's probably going to die in the same reliable fashion. While I personally doubt inventing yourself a new gender is going to help things, diversity of lifestyle and thought is probably a good thing - perhaps some of us will walk a strange path that leads to survival, and perhaps even goes some way towards fixing some of the damage we've caused.
I agree those mechanisms have failed - everyone has their own ideas about why, and what should have been done better, but most will be wrong. Loyalty towards a system that has marched us straight to death isn't rational in the bigger picture.