Mark O’Connell is a writer based in Dublin. He is the author of To Be a Machine (2017), and Notes from an Apocalypse, which will be published in April 2020
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Pictures of the World on Fire won’t Shock us for Much Longer
It’s not the melting of the ice-caps or the burning of the forests that seem to me to be the real apocalyptic scenario, but rather the slow atrophying of our moral imaginations; not the inferno itself, but the indifference of those of us who are not yet on fire. In this sense above all we are in danger, and we need to act immediately to survive.
January 14, 2020
