National Observer, Aug 3, 2021. Don’t be fooled by the title; this is much more than a column about a mid-life crisis. It concerns the rhetorical question around the key factors that impact our lives today. “The knowledge generated in the last 50 years on climate change, toxic exposures, gendered health impacts, environmental racism, worker health and safety, and more is immense. Why then, like the outspoken child I was at 10, do I need to address these problems of environmental connections to health — and now for my own children, aged 10 and 12?” It’s a question that surely triggers despair (and pessimism) for everyone who has been concerned over the decades old predictions of problems we are now facing. Despite the knowledge available and abundant forewarnings, here we are today. The author’s ultimate fear is expressed in the other rhetorical question her article begs: What will our children (or grandchildren) be asking when they reach their own comparable midlife crises in another 30 years? [ARTICLE LINK)