How to engage young people on climate change? Try screening a doc on environmental racism, says prof [Video]

Young people will need to be persistent if they want to make change in the world, says a Canadian author and researcher on environmental racism. 

That’s the message McMaster University professor Ingrid Waldron hopes students receive as they hear from three women on Thursday who have been leading fights against industrial impacts on Black and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia. 

The women were featured in the 2019 documentary, There’s Something in the Water, which screens on Thursday on campus before the panel discussion with the three women. The film was co-produced by Waldron, Canadian actor Elliot Page and Ian Daniel and is named after Waldron’s book by the same name. 

“What they will get out of this [screening and discussion] is that these are three women who have been organizing around environmental justice issues for over a decade and they haven’t given up,” Waldron told CBC Hamilton ahead of the event. 

“They have been persistent and consistent and that’s the way to do …