Ken Dryden

'We will need to find a new possible.' Ken Dryden on the biggest question young Canadians face: Climate change. To solve big, hard problems you need both ...

To put the brakes on one, and to put the pedal to the metal on another. To give future prime ministers and presidents enough of the way that they, and you, have the will to take on the fight. To see what had worked and what hadn’t, to know better what needed to be done and what degree of commitment was now required, at this moment, and in the future. We know a lot about climate change, and are on the way to knowing a lot more. The challenge for you and your generation will be to demonstrate to yourselves and to future decision makers that scientifically, technologically, economically and politically there is a way. The fact that life on Earth exists at all is a miracle on top of a miracle on top of a miracle. Between the way we think about ourselves, and the way we think about the relationship between us and every other living thing around us. Bryson because it’s the incredible, impossible amazing-ness he writes about that somehow has become the incredible, impossible amazing-ness of whales and giraffes and us. About the effects it has on the land and sky, on plants and forests, animals, humans, on your future, and your life. You want to connect, and feel connected, to the world around you. As parents and grandparents, what we want most is to know that our kids and grandkids, that you and your generation, will be okay. In what kind of Canada, in what kind of world, on what kind of planet, do you want to live?