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How to explain adult environmental failures to children without crushing hope

I'm trying to teach my kids about climate change by planting trees with them but they keep asking why adults cut down all the forests in the first place and I don't have good answers.

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What we've seen

Attempting to engage children in environmental solutions forces confrontation with the scale of previous generations' ecological damage and ongoing destruction.

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“Where Are You with Forests — ancient and new?”

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