Sonny, nobody is saying everything is alright. One of the things that JWs are really good at is binarial thinking--if it's not "A," then it must be "B." If it's not black, then it must be white. It's much more realistic to see things--including supposed world events--as existing on a spectrum.
In your post, you mention a financial meltdown, climate change and lawlessness due to insurrections. At least, those seem to be the main issues of concern. You seem (as I interpret your post) to perceive these things as indicating a fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicating Armaggedon's imminence. However, how many of those things are predicted in the Bible? Does the Bible ANYWHERE prophecy about a global economic downturn? About global warming or environmental depletion? Jesus' prediction in the synoptic gospels says nothing about those things. Neither does the apocalyptic prophecy of the four horsemen.
And yes, you can turn to Ezek 7:19 regarding people throwing their gold and silver in the street. That scrip has nothing to do with a global financial downturn, but rather pointed to the futility of material protection when God acted against Israel. That prophecy was specifically aimed at the nation of Israel and nothing in it contemplates an end-times or global scenario.
JWs like to trot out Rev. 11:18 as somehow predicting the environmental problems we see today, relying on the phrase "bring to ruin those ruining the earth," as if "ruining the earth" had a literal exegesis. However, that exact phrase was used to describe the people of Noah's day who were "ruining the earth" with violence. Nothing in that verse assumes manmade environmental destruction.
Is everything perfectly fine on our planet? Of course not. Humanity is facing serious hurdles, the natures of which are utterly unprecedented to our species. Unprecedented, as in completely unfamiliar to Bible writers.
But please be aware that it is all too easy to get a distorted picture of world conditions from the media. The sad fact is that "If it bleeds, it leads," meaning that news outlets thrive on bad news. I recently was checking out a recent update on the UN website which discussed how meeting the Millennial goals was coming along. Of course, most of them are unmet. But--WOW--I couldn't believe the amazing progress that had been made in improving sanitation, clean water and fighting diseases like malaria. Mortality rates for children under five years have plummeted in virtually every third-world country. That's amazing. Moreover, when I was pioneering (way back in the late '80's/early '90s), we used the most current figures for how many people were hungry on the planet--about one-fourth of the population, around 1 billion. That's 1 billion too many, yes. But do you know what the figure is today? 1 billion--and the world's population has nearly doubled. About one person in seven doesn't get enough to eat. Yet twenty years ago, that number was one person in four. That's amazing.
My point is you need to examine this issue very carefully and not jump to conclusions.
