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When young people lose hope for their environmental future

My teenage daughter has stopped talking about her future plans and when I ask she just shrugs and says what's the point and I don't know how to argue with her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Climate despair in the young challenges parental capacity to nurture optimism and forward-looking purpose.

Ideas that help explain it
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