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How environmental grief affects sharing nature with children

I want my daughter to love nature like I do but every hike is an opportunity to point out what's dying and I'm teaching her to see loss everywhere.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The desire to pass on love of nature competes with the inability to hide knowledge of its destruction.

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