But the main lesson from the church of technology runs in the other direction, instructing us in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to regard the world beyond our phones as less real, less urgent, and less meaningful than the worlds made available to us through those screens, which happen to be worlds protected from climate devastation. As Andreas Malm has wondered, "How many will play augmented reality games on a planet that is six degrees warmer?" The poet and musician Kate Tempest puts it more brinily: "Staring into the screen so we don't have to see the planet die."

— The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Page 185)