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Why working in environmental causes can worsen climate despair

I work for an environmental nonprofit and spend my days writing grant proposals while the world burns and I feel like I'm rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Proximity to both the urgency of ecological problems and the inadequacy of current responses creates a particular form of professional disillusionment.

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