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How parents and teens navigate extinction blame together

My teenage daughter keeps showing me videos about dying coral reefs and extinct species and I try to engage but we end up in these cycles where she's angry at my generation and I feel helpless and neither of us knows how to connect across this grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generational responsibility for ecological collapse creates barriers to shared processing of loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The sixth extinction — examined?”

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