Escalating crises will drive more people to bodily control as solace

Evidence

I may not be able to do much about grievous injustice in the world, at least not by myself or in very short order, but I can decide to increase the weight on the leg press machine by twenty pounds and achieve that within a few weeks. … As the climate crisis accelerates, with the land heaving beneath us and burning around us, I expect that many of us will continue to find comfort in whatever small bodily obeyances we can muster. There is solace to be found there. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 576

Categorization

• SEED: Prediction that climate anxiety will intensify the turn to bodily ‘obeyances’ — an angle for an essay on the psychodynamics of fitness culture in crisis.