I was a teenager in the 90s in a house that read the Daily Mail every day, and that could deliver a similar sense of dread. But at least the dread was about th

I was a teenager in the 90s in a house that read the Daily Mail every day, and that could deliver a similar sense of dread. But at least the dread was about things that seemed vaguely tractable and somewhat local, rather than the dizzyingly complex, global and existential threats the news delivers these days. And of course not everyone read newspapers as intentionally-alarming as the Mail. Whereas now many more people’s information supply is mediated by channels with that brief. Feels to me like a double-whammy of the alarm-maximising sections of the internet developing at the same time as the climate crisis becomes more imminent, maybe?