Climate action benefits you

How simple actions offer personal gain

Before we were old enough to go to sleep away camp, my brother and I often spent our summer days in the hallway of my father’s accounting office. We’d watch Mr. Rogers slip on his cozy sweater as we huddled around the black and white three-inch TV my dad had bought to keep us occupied while he worked.

My grandfather had died from lung cancer that year. And in his grief, my father doubled down on smoking four packs of Winstons a day, pounding each pack against the heel of his palm before he…