To my son, born during the climate crisis: Get mad and get ready [cnn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/22/223:42 PM

By Bill Weir, Photo: Bill Weir, CNN Travel, April 22, 2022

Dear River,

It's just over two years since you joined our Little Blue Marble ride through the Milky Way and now that you can say things like "Bill Weir I want banana smoothie," it's time to learn the difference between "Happy Birthday" and"Happy Earth Day."

Both are in April, but one of them has cake and Hopalong Andy and the other, frustration with humanity. Both involve balloons, only on Earth Day we get pick their deflated shards off a beach or festoon them around a protest sign on a march down Broadway.

I was a toddler your size when this "holiday" began, back when theskies of Los Angeles had the look of a neglected fishbowl and a river in Ohio held so much oily pollution that it turned the color of a rainbow and burst into flames.

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