Since the very day of its release, Don’t Look Up has been spurring intense discussion and debate about its symbolic depiction of climate change as an existential threat, and the struggle of climate activists to get governments and people to mobilize and take action against it. In this episode, I explain why it is so difficult for people to understand the urgency of the threat, and what we must do to rectify this before it’s too late.
LINKS:
Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, by George Marshall
“At the End of the World, It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down.”
https://www.wired.com/story/timothy-morton-hyperobjects-all-the-way-down/
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, by Timothy Morton
Being Ecological, by Timothy Morton
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