Grade 11 students at Lester B. Pearson’s 12 high schools in the West Island have a contest to win. The prize is a seat at environmental activist Dr. David Suzuki’s lecture at John Abbott College, Oct. 24.
Students must write a one-page essay on Suzuki’s lecture topic, The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line. The deadline for essays is Tuesday.
Suzuki will talk about how the human drive to work, win and live big are destroying the planet and how young people should become more engaged in the battle to change those behaviours. Two winning essays will be selected by each school. Winners will attend a breakfast before the lecture and, following lunch, tour John Abbott College’s new Science and Health Technology building which officially opens the same day.
A live feed of the lecture is available to Lester B. Pearson schools.
The irony here is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
Sainte Anne de Bellevue, the only green oasis left on the West Island, is in the midst of huge battle pitting citizens who want to keep their community green with a council that wants high densification development. Too funny. Also very sad that the students and Suzuki foundation aren’t aware of this.