Climate change – its impact, complexity and persistence – is hard for human brains to parse. In his 2013 book Hyperobjects, the philosopher Timothy Morton described how “things that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans” defy our intuition. Global warming is one such hyperobject: a panel about the ocean hinted at others.
It stretches my brain. A little. A river would be another hyperobject.
[edited – added link and the following.] Thanks to “Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime”, NewScientist, 2 July 2016, amended online later.
