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When you discover your efforts are meaningless

I compost religiously but my city sends it to a landfill anyway and finding this out made me stop recycling altogether.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Learning that our individual acts of care are undermined by larger systems can trigger a collapse of agency that extends beyond the original disappointment.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Food growing and connection to land?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.