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In many contexts, environmental impacts are “diffuse”—distant in space and time from the causes that preceded them. This has an effect on decision making about environmental harms and benefits because people tend to process distant and latent impacts differently than nearby and immediate ones. As a result of multiple psychological phenomena, this makes diffuse environmental impacts difficult for people to see and measure let alone, care about.