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When new parents face extinction anxiety together

My wife and I decided to have kids despite knowing about mass extinction and now we make these dark jokes about 'preparing them for the apocalypse' but we can't figure out how to parent with hope when we're terrified about their future.

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The desire to protect children conflicts with the impossibility of shielding them from ecological collapse.

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