Climate change & mild discombobulation

When the parks dried up and it hadn’t rained for over a month, I wrote about how strange it all felt to have it dawn on you that this is climate change.

https://medium.com/@powellds/in-praise-of-mild-discombobulation-because-christ-what-else-have-we-got-bb3e7d648fb0

Ecological philosopher Timothy Morton argues that our brains are wired to generally not notice most things until they try to bite us or start behaving a bit strangely. Then — when the birds stop singing and the grass turns to sand; when we see wild fires near Manchester or in the Arctic Circle; when it just… won’t… rain… — we think: crikey, that’s not quite right, is it.