Obesity and climate change are thus seen as “apolitical ecologies” , which is to say that our explanations for each do not fully account for the asymmetries in power that first create them materially and then later define them as “problems” (and in fact these asymmetries are the problem). Instead, both are viewed as the product of bad decision making at the individual level, which can be remedied with such things as education. This move effectively absolves the system of any blame.