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Why climate knowledge creates unbearable tension between caring and powerlessness

I see news about species going extinct and I feel like I should do something but I also feel like there's nothing I can do and the cognitive dissonance is killing me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between moral response and effective action creates a form of psychological splitting.

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