Climate “Foodprint”
The very first Earth Day was a really big deal when I was a kid back in 1970, and it’s still a big deal for kids today. That’s because children’s health is, even more than their parents’, threatened by environmental degradation and destruction. Kids today have a deep understanding that the climate crisis is posing real dangers to their present and future health and prosperity. Fortunately, a swelling number of their parents and pediatricians — adults who actually have a voice and some capabilities to reverse the growing threats covered on The PediaBlog this week (from plastic and petrochemical pollution , for example, and from air pollution ) — also comprehend this basic climate reality. With Earth Day 2023 just two days away, it’s important to recognize how difficult it is for children to grow up in places that are toxic, on a planet where the climate system is rapidly deteriorating. It’s been tough for parents , too. So it is encouraging to see children and teenagers, who face de...