Nowadays, one can scarcely open up a news feed or observe media that does not portray an image and caption about the dire state of climate change—from catastrophic weather events to the rapidly melting polar icecaps: images of polar bears—mothers with cubs—afloat on small pieces of ice amid the vast seas, and heart-wrenching clips of emaciated polar bears unable to find food as their territory disappears.

Famous environmental activists, such as David Suzuki, have been talking about the problem of climate change for years; now, popular television personality, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, drops f-bombs in a desperate and angry plea for change (O’Brien, 2019), adding that the significant trouble posed by climate change is not 50–75 years away, but 10–15 years, at most (Torres, 2019). Humans’ mass development, industry, resource extraction, globalization, pollution, consumption, and waste have put the planet into great peril. As an educator, activist, mother, student, researcher, Métis1, flood survivor, resident of High River in southern Alberta, and citizen of the Earth, I feel the crushing