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The issue with apocalyptic framings of climate crisis is not that they overstate the gravity of the situation but that the temporality they evoke is one of total rupture. But the crisis has long been unfolding, w/ acute consequences in some places & diffuse effects in others.
This multiplex and spatialized temporality—already happening; getting much worse; everywhere; some places more than others; acute; diffuse—is what we need to grapple with.
Meanwhile, the framing of an unthinkable disaster at an unknownable point in the future collapses the timeframe in which radical political action could take place. That time is now, it is tomorrow, it is every single day we have.
