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How families navigate climate guilt and generational anger

My teenage kids are furious at my generation for climate change and I don't disagree with them, but family dinners have become these tense affairs where they're angry and I'm defensive and my spouse just tries to change the subject. We all care about the planet but we can't figure out how to be on the same side instead of treating each other like the enemy.

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Environmental crisis has created a generational rift in the family where shared concern manifests as blame rather than solidarity.

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