This is my column in the Halifax Sunday Herald for October 17, 2010. It may seem pretty local, because it’s about forest practices in Nova Scotia, and the debate currently raging here about the future of the forests — but it applies in many other places around the world.
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An old friend sent me a video — Declan Galbraith, aged 13, singing an inspirational song that he’d written and performed in 2002. I’d never seen it before, and I thought it was astonishing and inspiring. If ever you ask yourself why we keep trying to resolve these huge problems even though people our age — my age anyway — aren’t going to be around all that long, a performance like this ought to galvanize you.
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