Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died at the age of 35 Tuesday after a nearly two-year battle with cancer.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
We also want to take note here of the death of Tatiana Schlossberg. She died on Tuesday, less than two years after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Schlossberg was a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, the daughter of author and former ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
Schlossberg was an award-winning environmental journalist and a wife and mother. She shared an essay in The New Yorker last month, and shortly after giving birth to her second child, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia.
MARTIN: While detailing her therapy and moments with family and friends, she also spoke of realizing that she would not survive. She wrote, quote, “my first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, would not remember me.”
MARTÍNEZ: In her essay, Schlossberg criticized her mother’s cousin, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for his decision to cut government funding for medical research, and she expressed regrets about being unable to protect her mother from another loss.
MARTIN: Schlossberg wrote a book in 2019, “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.” The Society of Environmental Journalists said it gave readers, quote, “a route to feeling empowered with possibilities for positive change.” Here she is speaking about climate change during a 2019 event at Harvard University.
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TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG: This isn’t an issue that can be separated from other issues. This involves everything. A question about health care – that’s a question about climate change. A question about justice is a question about climate change. A question about agriculture or, you know, any of these things is a question about climate change.
MARTÍNEZ: Tatiana Schlossberg was 35 years old.
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