I don't have a lot of heroes, in fact I had just one, Rachel Carson, for many, many years. Simon Jackson is another.
Simon Jackson's campaign to save the Spirit Bear has been made into a movie.
His web site is Here
These words are from his Message at the site set up for the SBYC.
"For years, students would approach me and say: Simon, I’m one person, if I don’t bother to write a letter, I won’t make a difference. And to that I would answer - you’re right. If you don’t make your voice heard, you won’t make a difference. No one will know what you think. But if every person, said, ’yes, I can make a difference, I will do my part, I will make my voice heard’. Think if everyone believed that. We were able to get this message through to enough people - so as each person sat down and wrote a letter, a friend or family member would as well, and soon 25, 000 letters from young people alone, were pouring into the Premier’s office in the months leading up to our first land-use agreement in 2001. Soon the message had legs. After all, it was one of those letter's that the Premier finally picked up and said: ’what are we going to do about the spirit bear?’. It was one person who put the issue over the top and it took each of those 24, 999 people to make it happen. It is the power of one, united as one voice."
What a beautiful, beautiful creature and such an amazing young man! I'll have to take the time to check out the website thoroughly.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for looking wabbitmom. Also, if you want to see it, the movie was aimed at kids but it pretty much tells the story of the coalition, the difficulties of setting it up, and of course the battles in winning habitat as a forever thing. The bears, even such gentle ones as the spirit bears and little black bears, are in real trouble these days.
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