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When sustainable choices create new forms of anxiety

I bought an electric bike to be more sustainable but now I'm constantly worried about it getting stolen and I spend more mental energy on security apps than I ever did on car maintenance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Environmental solutions often replace familiar problems with unfamiliar ones, trading known stress for unknown stress.

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