This photo was from 2021, two (at this point, almost three) years ago when my kids last got to enjoy a fun snow day outside. I miss these days – and I want to make sure this wasn’t the last time my kids got to create snow-filled, childhood memories.
Recently, when I reached into the closet for my daughter’s gloves and hat for her daily trek to the bus stop, I noticed her snow pants, which had been pushed aside since last year. They were collecting dust, unused and unneeded, given the mild fall.
As I watched her run to the bus, I felt a pang of sadness. Her childhood memories, and that of my son’s, will be very different than mine because of climate change. In New England, milder fall and winter seasons, sudden cold snaps, heat emergencies, and heavier rains and floods are robbing them of memories I want them to build and putting their future in danger.
That’s why COP28,…