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Climate Change - A Hyper Object
The philosopher timothy morton talks about the clima crisis as a hyper object. It is so vast and all encompassing that you can't see their edges. Climate change, for example, shows up in what comes out of our tail pipe after burning fossil fuels and having air pollution. We evolve to be able to deal with threats, but immediate threats. And now, if it's not going to interfere with dinner plans to night, we don't seem to pay as much attention to it.