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Why environmental awareness sometimes leads to avoidance

I avoid documentaries about coral bleaching or melting ice caps because I know I'll just feel helpless and depressed for weeks without changing anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The psyche protects itself from unbearable knowledge through strategic ignorance, creating a feedback loop of disengagement.

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