We’ve Crossed the First Climate Tipping Point. America Will Pay the Price

We’ve Crossed the First Climate Tipping Point. America Will Pay the Price

By Ben Jealous My parents’ marriage was against the law in Maryland in 1966, so they moved west. By the time I was born in 1973, they had settled in Monterey County, California — the same year the last cannery on Cannery Row shut down. The Hovden Cannery closed its doors, marking the end of an era. Where it stood, the Monterey Bay Aquarium would eventually rise, a monument to what we’d lost and hoped to restore. When I was 12, in 1985, I became …