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Showing Original Post only (View all)I don't want to be depressing, here, but - how do you cope with it? [View all]
I read about the booming trade for ivory trinkets in China, and the ensuing slaughter of hundreds (at least) of elephants.
That there are only 4 white rhinos left in the wild.
All of the awful, tragic, horrible things that humans do (and please don't list them so I don't fling myself off a cliff) for profit, 'beauty', or boners.
And the abuse of animals, pets, the conditions in industrial farms, medical experiments, all of it.
So - how do you cope with feelings of anger, rage, sadness and despair? Sometimes I feel like I'm going to just shatter. And I don't want to be ignorant, but the knowledge of what goes on tears me to pieces.
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I rarely allow myself the luxury of denial in most of life's little tragedies but,
Marie Marie
Feb 2013
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