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Why climate activism groups can become spaces of shared despair

I joined a climate action group but every meeting feels like group therapy for the apocalypse and I'm not sure if we're helping or just sharing our helplessness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Collective action intended to create agency can instead amplify feelings of powerlessness.

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