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Why we forget environmental tragedies so quickly

Every time I see another 'last white rhino' article I feel this overwhelming sadness but then I forget about it completely by lunch and that forgetting feels worse than the sadness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The human capacity for adaptive forgetting, evolved for survival, becomes a barrier to sustained moral response.

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