Thirteen-year-old Autumn Peltier's 2018 UN speech shares ancient wisdom about water, the earth and humanity. She calls us to "Warrior up..." knowing that, "One day I will be an ancestor, and I want my great-grand-children to know I tried hard to fight so they can have clean drinking water."

The global climate strikes inspired by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg reconnect to the wisdom of indigenous people who cared for the earth before being decimated by colonial genocides. Visiting the water protectors of Standing Rock, Greta recognised that, "Indigenous peoples... are often the ones who are affected the most by the climate and ecological crisis, yet they are not the ones responsible for it. They are also the ones who are leading the fight against it. We are now so desperate for their voices and knowledge how to live in balance with nature." 

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Honouring Ancestors connects the past, present and future through lectures Pregs has delivered, including on Wangari Maathai, Ruth First, Victoria Mxenge and Julius Nyerere. Wangari Maathai was profiled at the time of COP 2019, to remind elected leaders that their loyalty is to the earth and her citizens, not to those whose greed for profit is destroying the earth and humanity. If the world heeds the wisdom of ancestors like Wangari, the earth's children, whose wealth was stolen from them, could play happily, their present and future secure.