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When climate anxiety disrupts basic life planning

I lie awake calculating how old I'll be when civilization collapses and whether I should max out my credit cards since money won't matter anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Catastrophic environmental projections make normal future-oriented decisions feel absurd, undermining the psychological foundation for daily functioning.

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