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A striking analogy compares societal distraction to a hypothetical scenario: obsessing over the polish of a garage while living amid a mess of raccoons and garbage. Activists and politicians, he suggests, are similarly preoccupied with visual or symbolic gestures instead of substantial solutions. The obsession with "green" initiatives and emissions reductions, for example, is criticized as superficial when actual traffic congestion and urban decay worsen.