Tuesday, November 12, 2019

'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life - VICE

'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life - VICE:
  • "It's super painful to be a human being right now at this point in history."
Image result for 'Climate Despair'"...many people are suffering from what could be called "climate despair," a sense that climate change is an unstoppable force that will render humanity extinct and renders life in the meantime futile. 
As David Wallace-Wells noted in his 2019 bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth, "For most who perceive an already unfolding climate crisis and intuit a more complete metamorphosis of the world to come, the vision is a bleak one, often pieced together from perennial eschatological imagery inherited from existing apocalyptic texts like the Book of Revelation, the inescapable sourcebook for Western anxiety about the end of the world."
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