Endangered U.S. Destinations

So my homepage for Internet Explorer is MSN, which is usually a little annoying, but I don't use IE much. Sometimes though, there are useful cover articles with practical tips for saving money or catchy ones like rankings of second-string quarterbacks. Last week, "America's Endangered Destinations" caught my eye. The article features 15 different U.S. sites that are currently threatened by human encroachment and development, sea level rise, and/or global warming. Luckily I have had the opportunity to visit a number of places listed, including Washington's old growth temperate rain forest. The article helped bring the damage we are doing to the environment even closer to home - many treasured areas and ways of life will be destroyed and may be gone even by the time my generation reaches middle age. My children may never have the opportunity to see glaciers in Montana or alligators in the Everglades or the Old North Church on the Freedom Trail in Boston. What will the lives of future generations be like without these places of national identity?