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How to talk to children about climate change without crushing hope

My seven-year-old asked me if polar bears will be extinct when she grows up and I lied and said no but now I can't sleep because I don't know if I should have told her the truth.

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The burden of protecting innocence while honoring reality creates an impossible moral bind.

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