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How to grieve places lost to environmental change

I grew up going to this lake every summer with my grandparents but now it's dried up from drought and seeing the empty basin feels like looking at a corpse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Ecological destruction creates a form of anticipatory nostalgia for landscapes that may never return.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Land as sacred?”

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