Fighting For Our Children's Future - Traverse City
Sun, May 31
|Traverse Area District Library
In an Era of Climate Change, Government Denial & Needed Advocacy a Conversation with Pediatrician Debra Hendrickson
Time & Location
May 31, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
Traverse Area District Library, 610 Woodmere Ave, Traverse City, MI 49686, USA
About the event
Description
A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.
Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada—the fastest warming city in the United States, where ash falls like snow during summer wildfires. In The Air They Breathe, Dr. Hendrickson recounts patients she’s seen who were harmed by worsening smoke, smog, and pollen; two boys in Arizona, stricken by record-setting heat while hiking; children who fled for their lives from Hurricane Harvey and the Tubbs Fire; and a little girl whose life was forever altered by the Zika virus outbreak in 2016.
The climate crisis is a health crisis, and it is a health crisis, first and foremost,…