Our hiking group has been going to the same spots for fifteen years and now half of them are either burned or dying from drought, and we keep showing up but no one wants to acknowledge how depressing it's become. We all loved these places together and now we're just witnessing their destruction together and pretending it's fine.
More people experience this than they realize.
They're collectively witnessing the destruction of beloved places but lack the emotional language to grieve together rather than suffer in polite silence.
“Where Are You with Environmental grief?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.