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When environmental education conflicts with lived reality

I teach my kids about recycling and conservation but I know the house we live in was built on what used to be prairie and I don't know how to reconcile these contradictions.

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The attempt to pass down environmental values becomes complicated by the recognition that our very existence depends on ecological destruction.

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