01 · The Library — Mind & Attention
And Just Like That, I Lost Interest
On the half-life of public attention to a catastrophe, which is now measured in days and used to be measured in years.
The coverage curve for a climate disaster has a shape, and the shape is stable enough to predict. Knowing the shape does not make anyone hold on any longer, which is itself the finding.
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