The earth itself can flip into a monstrous doppelganger from habitable to uninhabitable.

Evidence

In the relatively wealthy parts of this planet, these parallel Shadow Lands are our personal and planetary subconscious, and they haunt us. The ghosts of the past, present, and future, all racing toward us at once. We sense that the barriers that separate these worlds cannot hold for much longer. That, even for the most resourced among us, the curtain hiding the suffering and the ugliness is badly frayed. That just as societies can flip into their monstrous doppelgangers, so can the earth—from habitable to uninhabitable. That, as the Amazonian rain forest incinerates and Antarctica’s ice cliffs heave into the sea, this process has already begun. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 802

Categorization

• XREF: Klein extends her core doubling metaphor from individuals to whole ecological systems; connects to her earlier diagnostic of the doppelganger device in the pandemic chapters.
• QUESTION: Does this personifying move — earth as doppelganger — risk diluting the analytic force of the doubling device she’s been carefully building? Worth tracking whether the metaphor is doing work or just coloring.