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Why environmental volunteering can increase rather than decrease despair

I started volunteering for trail maintenance thinking it would connect me to nature but mostly I just feel angry about all the garbage people leave behind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Direct engagement with ecological damage and human carelessness can intensify rather than resolve feelings of environmental grief and misanthropy.

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