The Climate Apocalypse Will Be Google Mapped - Google Maps’s air quality indicators and wildfire warnings suggest one approach to a warming world. It’s grim.

TL;DR

Aweird paradox of modern life is that, although humans struggle to address bigproblems like climate change, we’re great at making our lives easier. I use the app for this often, and when I do, I can sense myanger and stress over insufficient government investment in transit ebbing; as Googleseamlessly solves my practical problem, the bigger picture recedes from my view. Neither of thesequalities will help us stop the climate crisis, and they may even foreclose politicalsolutions: After all, if environmental crisis is something I can reasonablymanage in my daily life, why take political action to stop it?

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