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When climate anxiety becomes paralyzing instead of motivating

I spend hours doom-scrolling climate news until I'm paralyzed with anxiety and then I feel guilty for not doing enough about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Information overwhelm transforms concern into helplessness, defeating the very awareness it seeks to cultivate.

Ideas that help explain it
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