 Temporal-parts accounts of change seem OK, but can endurantists come up with anything equally good or better? How can one and the same thing have different properties at different times? One radical answer is presentism, the view that only present objects, events and states exist: past and future do not exist. Presentism seems to dissolve the problem of change: since only the overripe banana is present, its unripe state does not exist, so there’s nothing to worry about. (For further discussion of presentism, see  section 6.)   But unless there are independent reasons for accepting presentism (see the separate entry on  time),  it seems like a drastic response to the problem of change.