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I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

- Severn Cullis-Suzuki
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I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.

When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.

You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Growing up there was always a sense of 'We have so many gifts and we have to use that for the betterment of the planet.'

I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.

Sometimes it's hard not to feel really negative.

I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.

We're in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide you with that good.

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I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.