>Not that there aren't bad things happening in the world, that's the way it has always been, but your phone will have you believe that they are more frequent an

>Not that there aren't bad things happening in the world, that's the way it has always been, but your phone will have you believe that they are more frequent and much closer than they actually are. Unless of course you're in Pakistan, where a third of the country was flooded last year, you're currently experiencing the largest land war in Europe's post-war history etc. People aren't okay because the world isn't. Bruno Latour in one of his lectures he gave a few years ago pointed out that we, without doing anything, essentially lost a war to climate change. We can't even imagine that it was completely possible for people two generations ago to have transformed our ways of life, modes of production and so on, so that we could, theoretically now look at the past and see it as a problem behind us. We could literally be walking through a "great climate change war" museum, the way we visit a WW II museum. Instead we're essentially negotiating how fast we drive the titanic into the iceberg. So the question is honestly not why people are concerned but why they're not more panicked, why we're still sleepwalking. If we had sirens in our cities going off given our ecological situation alone, not to mention all others, we'd be running for the shelters like people did during the Blitz. Something that could have been a passing problem in the past has transformed, through inaction and lack of attention into something that threatens entire civilizations.