What they said

“We’re kids. We shouldn’t know all these things. But we do. People should listen to us because it’s our future. The government right now won’t have to live with all the consequences.”

- Ira Reinhart-Smith

“When I look into the eyes of my grandchildren, I want to be able to tell them that I did absolutely everything in my power to contribute to the largest collective human endeavour in history: undoing the damage to our environment that threatens our very future on the planet." ....

"“We have to be brave, but as a community and as individuals we also have to commit ourselves to being kind, and this is where I think we really have something to be optimistic about.”

- Timothy Habinski

“Cutting emissions is not going to be enough. We have to do it. We’re completely screwed if we don’t. But it’s not enough.

We also need to be capturing carbon back out of the atmosphere. The real critical thing is, we can’t let industrial forestry and the technological mind do that in ways that create more ecological devastation.”

- Nina Newington

“We are starting what we’re calling the ‘Nova Scotia Working Woodands Trust” and its primary aim will be to protect the ecological legacy and stewardship legacy of woodlot owners. So it’s really to take those woodlots that have been exemplarily managed in the past and have some sort of protection mechanism.”

- Mary Jane Rodgers