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When staying informed about climate disasters becomes compulsive and destructive

I keep doom-scrolling climate change articles at 2am and my wife says I need to stop but I feel like looking away is morally irresponsible.

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The moral imperative to witness suffering can become a form of self-punishment that changes nothing.

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