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When your climate anxiety conflicts with your child's nihilism

I keep buying organic food and solar panels but my teenager rolls her eyes and says it doesn't matter because the rich will always destroy the planet and I don't know how to give her hope without lying to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent struggles to model environmental responsibility while acknowledging their child's realistic despair about systemic destruction.

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