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When familiar landscapes become inaccessible

The local hiking trail I've walked for years is now closed due to erosion and fire damage and I feel like I'm watching my own memories disappear.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Environmental degradation erases not just ecosystems but the personal geographies that anchor identity and memory.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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