Environmental grief — the mourning for species lost, landscapes destroyed, futures foreclosed — is one of the newest and least acknowledged forms of grief, because there is no funeral, no condolence card, no agreed period of mourning. Nasreddin would say: grieve it honestly, because dishonest grief becomes paralysis, and there is still work to do. The grief is real; what it is asking of you is the question.
Each step builds on the last.