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.
More people experience this than they realize.
The burden of protecting innocence while honoring reality creates an impossible moral bind.
“Where Are You with Climate grief and ecological mourning?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.