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How environmental researchers cope with ecological despair together

My research partner and I started our wetlands restoration project with shared wonder about ecosystem complexity, but now we just argue about whether our work matters given the scale of environmental destruction. We've become cynical about the very thing that inspired us and neither of us knows how to find meaning in small actions anymore.

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Intimate knowledge of environmental destruction has eroded the sense of purpose that originally motivated their work.

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