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How to explain systemic problems to children when you don't understand them yourself

My 8-year-old asked me why people don't just stop using fossil fuels if they're bad and I realized I don't actually understand why we can't.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children's logical questions expose adults' own confusion about complex systems and their sense of powerlessness within them.

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