The Cognitive Climate Crisis: Humanity Is Running Out of Attentional Oxygen
TL;DR — The Crisis in Five Points Attention is not a resource—it’s a biosphere. Like Earth’s atmosphere, the cognitive climate has specific conditions required for higher thought to survive. Those conditions are collapsing. Notifications are emissions. Every ping, scroll, and feed refresh pumps cognitive pollutants into your neural atmosphere. We’ve increased cognitive emissions 10,000% since … The Cognitive Climate Crisis: Humanity Is Running Out of Attentional Oxygen