Thread by @EmpireinWinter

Not Latour's best, but...'Gone is the infinite space; now you are responsible for the safety of this overbearing dome as much as you are for your own health & wealth. It weighs on you, body & soul. To survive under these new conditions we have to undergo a sort of metamorphosis.'

https://twitter.com/pmagn/status/1474537967922208773

'This is where politics enters. It is very difficult for most people used to the industrialised way of life, with its dream of infinite space & its insistence on emancipation & relentless growth and development, to suddenly sense that it is instead enveloped, confined, '

'tucked inside a closed space where their concerns have to be shared with new entities: other people of course, but also viruses, soils, coal, oil, water, and, worst of all, this damned, constantly shifting climate.'

'This disorienting shift is unprecedented, even cosmological, & it is already a source of deep political divisions. Although the sentence “you & I don’t live on the same planet” used to be a joking expression of dissent, it has become true of our present reality.'

' We do live on different planets, with rich people employing private fire fighters and scouting for climate bunkers, while their poorer counterparts are forced to migrate, suffer and die amid the worst consequences of the crisis.'