ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — “It’s important today because this affects everyone. We’re the one who’s going to have to deal with the consequences of other people’s actions. We have to stand up for what we believe in. It’s our only home.”
– Eshia Bungay
“I personally think it’s important to be here. We are the last chance for our future. We want a chance for our kids and their kids to grow up strong. We are all too young to experience the end of the world.”
– Michaela Cabot
“Our survival depends on it.”
– Emily Pittman
“It’s important to be here today because climate change is happening. It’s destroying our ecosystems, it’s destroying communities. We need to be here because in the next 60 years, the world is going to be irreversibly destroyed if we don’t take action.”
– Michael Johnson
“Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing the province and our world today. We need to do something about it. The New Democratic Party is here to do something about it. We want to look away from removing oil subsidies, moving towards more green energy projects, we want to change some legislation, we want to look at more rigorous environmental assessments to change our offshore. So many things that we’ve already been pushing, we’re going to push even harder because this is important.”
– Alison Coffin, Leader of the NL NDP
“I think this is an extremely important event. It’s so inspirational that so many people came out today for climate change. Our government has done a lot for climate change, but my personal perspective, we have a lot more to do. This is really inspirational. I’m going to go away and think about what else we can do. I’m going to challenge my team to do the same. I feel it was very effective today.”
– Sarah Stoodley, Liberal MHA for Mount Scio
“I think it’s very important because, being in government as a member of the opposition, we got to make sure that we change the technology. For me, the global crisis is all about the technology. If we can change the technology to change our carbon footprint, if we can change technology to be more environmentally friendly, then we can solve the crisis. We need investment to change technology and we need to enforce the changes the government is trying to put in place.”
– Lela Evans, PC MHA for Torngat Mountains
