How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays

Technology is forcing us to question the boundaries of our homes and communities. The climate crisis is forcing us to rethink how we treat our shared planet. When asked what their top concerns were for 2022, half of the young people we surveyed said ‘the climate crisis’ — more than double the number who said ‘mental health’ or ‘my relationships’. S... See more

the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more

It’s possible to understand that glaciers are melting more than they have historically, that fires are more likely when foliage is dry, or that a political party has a vested interest in promoting further investment in fossil fuels, but it’s not possible to understand or experience ‘climate change’ as such. The idea as a whole is a hyperobject, bey... See more