On Earth Day, memories of a child's attempt to wake up the world to climate change

And about a decade and a half later, the situation is even more perilous.

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It’s called the Blue Marble. Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center image by Reto Stöckli.

Somewhere in our apartment is one of the cutest pictures of our children. It’s my daughter at about 7 or 8 standing next to a display board she had done at school about that year’s Earth Day. She had a smile on her face that said she had done a good job.

And she had. The theme that year was the loss of forests and animals due to expansion of agricultural lands, particularly in Brazil. My wife and I were very proud of her drawings and text.