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How to cope when climate grief turns into numbness

I used to cry about dying animals and melting ice but now I feel nothing when I see those stories and I miss being able to feel.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The heart protects itself from unbearable knowledge by shutting down, but numbness brings its own kind of death.

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