Ecocide has already occurred and its effects are now irreversible.

Evidence

The material corollary of this stylized time is the inevitable environmental ruin wreaked by undead zombie capitalism. It is too late. Ecocide has already taken place. Lethal deluges, catastrophic droughts, and heat death are already baked into our future. The earth is hotter now than at any moment in the last 125,000 years. No matter what happens tomorrow, sea levels will rise six to twelve inches over the next two decades. Two billion people worldwide are currently living on land that will soon be either uninhabitably hot or well underwater, or both. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 33

Categorization

• XREF: The kernel-of-truth move — immediacy tracks real catastrophe — sets up her later defense that immediacy isn’t merely false consciousness but registers actual conditions. This anchors the reader’s central tension: how to defend mediation while conceding immediacy’s descriptive accuracy.
• ADDENDUM: The literal grounding of ‘it is too late’ gives the phrase (which titles the book’s invocation of lateness) its ecological referent — useful for the essay on immediacy’s conflation of temporal and environmental lateness.