Friday, September 7, 2012

Climate change ruins world for children

Evansville Courier and Press: My daughter was born in July 2011, within a week of air quality alerts. This year, she celebrated her first birthday within a summer of them. Summer 2012 should have been the first that we could really enjoy as a family, but with poor air quality, regular heat advisories with temperatures topping 100 degrees, and the threat of West Nile virus-carrying mosquitoes in the cooler evenings, my husband and I have kept our daughter inside. We had hoped to take her to the Vanderburgh County Fair, but...

URL: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/sep/07/climate-change-ruins-world-for-children/

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