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It argues that world, nature, and related concepts become container-like abstractions, leaving people unable to locate meaning, agency, and knowledge within ordinary “debates.” It also connects denial, environmental shock tactics, and belief-formation to a deeper ontological shift, calling for philosophical attention to the upgrading of our conceptual tools.","The End of the World  \nYou are walking out of the supermarket.As you approach your car,astranger calls out,\"Hey!Funny weather today!\"With a due sense ofcaution—is she a global warming denier or not?—you reply yes.Thereis a slight hesitation.Is it because she is thinking of saying somethingabout global warming?In any case,the hesitation induced you to thinkof it.Congratulations:you are living proof that you have entered the timeof hyperobjects.Why?You can no longer have a routine conversationabout the weather with a stranger.The presence of global warming loomsinto the conversation like a shadow,introducing strange gaps.Or globalwarming is spoken or—either way the reality is strange.  \nA hyperobject has ruined the weather conversation,which functionsas part of a neutral screen that enables us to have a human drama inthe foreground.In an age of global warming,there is no background,and thus there is no foreground.It is the end of the world,since worldsdepend on backgrounds and foregrounds.World is a fragile aestheticeffect around whose corners we are beginning to see.True planetaryawareness is the creeping realization not that \"We Are the World,\"butthat we aren't.  \nWhy?Because world and its cognates—environment,Nature—are iron-ically more objectified than the kinds of \"object\"I am talking about inthis study.World is more or less a container in which objectified thingsfloat or stand.It doesn’t matter very much whether the movie within the  \nThe End of the World  \ncontext of world is an old-fashioned Aristotelian movie of substancesdecorated with accidents;or whether the movie is a more avant-gardeDeleuzian one of flows and intensities.World as the background ofevents is an objectification of a hyperobject:the biosphere,climate,evo-lution,capitalism(yes,perhaps economic relations compose hyper-objects).So when climate starts to rain on our head,we have no ideawhat is happening.It is easy to practice denial in such a cognitive space:to set up,for example,\"debates”in which different “sides\"on globalwarming are presented.This taking of “sides”correlates all meaning andagency to the human realm,while in reality it isn't a question of sides,but of real entities and human reactions to them.Environmentalismseems to be talking about something that can’t be seen or touched.So inturn environmentalism ups the ante and preaches the coming apoca-lypse.This constant attempt to shock and dismay inspires even moredefiance on the opposite side of the “debate.”  \nBoth sides are fixated on world,just as both sides of the atheism de-bate are currently fixated on a vorhanden(“present at hand”),objectivelypresent God.As irritating for New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins tohear that atheism is just another form of belief,it nevertheless is—or atany rate,it holds exactly the same belief about belief as the fundamental-ists.Belief is a token,a mental object that you grip as hard as possible,like your wallet or car keys.In exactly the same way,it is annoying forenvironmentalists to talk about ecology without Nature.The argumentis heard as nihilism or postmodernism.But really it is environmentalismthat is nihilist and postmodernist,just as fundamentalism's belief aboutbelief marks it as a form of ontotheological nihilism.The ultimate envi-ronmentalist argument would be to drop the concepts Nature and world,to cease identifying with them,to swear allegiance to coexistence withnonhumans without a world,without some nihilistic Noah's Ark.  \nIn any weather conversation,one of you is going to mention globalwarming at some point.Oryou both decide not to mention it but it loomsover the conversation like a dark cloud,brooding off the edge of an ellip-sis.This failure of the normal rhetorical routine,these remnants of shat-tered conversation lying around like broken hammers (they must takeplace everywhere),is a symptom of a much larger and deeper ontological  \nThe End ofthe World  \nshift in human awareness.And in turn,this is a symptom of a profoundupgrade of our ","cbCaicB8UypFlDtY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicB8UypFlDtY","pdf",1873922,3,1,18,"English","en",105,"# The End of the World\n## Weather talk disrupted by hyperobjects\n## World, nature, and objectification\n## Debates, denial, and apocalyptic shock\n## Belief, nihilism, and conceptual reorientation\n## Ontological tools and the upgrading process","[{\"question\":\"Why does global warming disrupt ordinary conversations about the weather?\",\"answer\":\"Because global warming functions as a hyperobject, creating gaps that prevent routine rhetorical grounding in a stable background. 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