04/17/2026
Compassion is powerful, but it can also be exhausting. Caring for others, including animals, can take a deeper emotional toll than we often acknowledge.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202501/costs-of-caring-for-abused-animals-are-existential-crises
Nonhuman and human well-being are tightly linked and there are good reasons to include global losses of animal well-being and increases in compassion fatigue as existential crises.