Climate Justice is promoting the rights of the natural world from an Indigenous perspective, as Indigenous people all over the world have advocated for the protection of their lands from colonizing efforts to profit off our shared biosphere that provides life. Colonizing efforts jeopardize the futures of our children and will take centuries to fix. To me, Climate Justice is recognizing that Mother Earth has spirit and that she needs young leaders to step up and change our systems so that she may survive and continue to support life.

I challenge the youth to learn who they are, who their people are, and the history of their families. Our diversity in culture, beliefs, and values is our strength and we need to understand that colonization is universal and needs to be reversed. Everyone’s people come from somewhere and most times people come to Canada to escape the effects of colonization in their own countries, as colonization takes away resources, opportunities, and leadership from the people and places that power into the hands of a few. Those same few people do not care for the global human family and have demonstrated through their actions that immediate profit and gain is more important than the future of the world.