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“I feel like there is a moral obligation to be here for the lives of everyone,” said Caroline Beddoe, one of the strikers. “As a young person growing up in this crisis, we have no sense of what the future is going to look like or if we’re going to be the last generation in this mass extinction. This rally is our way of reasserting our political agency and showing what really matters to us because this really is life or death."

- Isabel Buckmaster
“I’m not doing this for you, I’m doing this for my generation,” said Julia Sampson, one of the organizers of SchoolStrike4Climate HFX. “It doesn’t take 30 years to talk about this, it takes 30 seconds. The climate crisis is real and we need to take immediate action”.

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“The biggest thing we can do right now is to strike and vote for climate in the election,” said Sampson. “The government isn’t taking action and because of this, our future is being threatened. If we don’t start now than it’s going to make things even harder; We have solutions, it’s about time we start using them."
Many strikers cited not only their future but their family’s futures as their reasoning for attending the march.

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His daughter, Audrey Henderson, mirrored that sentiment. “I think it’s important to be here today so that we have a nice place to live instead of polluting it,” said Henderson. “It’s important that we stay alive to make sure that we are able to save our planet and so we can sass the government."
MacIntosh and Henderson were just one of many families attending the rally. Maddy and Max Norris marched because they wanted to hold the government accountable for what they are doing to the earth.

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Maddy, age 10, had a much more direct request: “I want the government to stop lying. It’s not fair what [the government] is doing. They keep telling us things but they’re not doing them."
The strike also presented itself as an opportunity for newcomers to climate activism to learn and grow their knowledge on sustainability and the climate crisis.
“I have two young kids—a three-and-a-half-year-old and a four-month-old—when I think about their future, I’m scared. I believe the climate crisis is going to affect me but it’s going to affect them even more,” said Simon Chiasson, another striker. “I discovered this movement a little late in life but I’m doing what I can to be sustainable. I think we need to encourage anybody who is making the little steps and convince the government that this actually matters. That’s the only way we can get change."
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