When Brynn Kilpatrick was nine years old, inspired by then 16-year-old Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future, she started her own climate vigil on her main street during her grade four lunch period. Kilpatrick, a friend’s daughter, lives in my hometown in rural eastern Ontario, about 50 miles deep in the great Canadian boreal forest that stretches from Newfoundland to Alaska. Though the old-growth forest there is long gone, logging and lumber trucks still roll by every 15 minutes, and Kilpatrick would watch them as she conducted her quiet protest.