A Family Divided on Urgency
Violet even called out her 13-year-old brother Samuel for questioning her worry about global warming, recalling him asking:
“‘Did global warming have to do with the speed of the wind?’”
She then quips:
“Hopefully, most of us understand the climate crisis better than my little brother.”
This light moment contrasts sharply with the serious backdrop of a region grappling with infrastructure loss, public health crises, and the long-term mental strain of climate-induced displacement — a growing concern within both mental wellness care and pediatric health insurance plans.
Urgency Beyond the Flames
Putting her worry about climate change front and center, she later urges that climate change is “existential and accelerating,” driven by “unsustainable consumption patterns concentrated among the wealthiest citizens of the wealthiest countries.” These patterns, she argues, have already subjected much of the U.S. and the world to deadly temperatures, fire-flood cycles, rising seas, and dying crops
