Draw me the environment when you grow up | Radio-Canada.ca

Climate change, greenhouse gases, ocean pollution… Their parents, teachers and adults often talk about it. Their older brothers and older sisters, who are the age of Greta Thunberg, miss classes to demonstrate. But how do children in primary school who have not yet had both feet in adolescence see the future of the planet? Sixth-grade students at École La source in Laval answer this question with colored pencils.

The exercise has no scientific claim. It is simply the pulse of a group of children at a time when environmental issues are coming to the streets as much as to the political sphere. How do these young people feel? Anxiety? Or hope? Their vision, they and they tell it through their drawings and in their words.

With all the candor of childhood.