Female island youth in parts per million (ppm) volumetric voices: Sustainable development for water and climate change through the islandness of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Autumn Peltier, and Greta Thunberg

Through the lens of popular culture and islandness, this paper demonstrates how the literary works of Prince Edward Island author Lucy Maud Montgomery, juxtaposed with two world-renowned leading global youth environmental activists, Autumn Peltier, Anishinaabe water-rights advocate and Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory, Manitoulin Island, Ontario; and Greta Thunberg, an environmentalist from Stockholm, Sweden, becomes intertwined with the Sustainable Development Goals for Water and Climate Change. Montgomery's biosphere observations transcend several generations, connecting with Peltier and Thunberg, creating a network of global youth through the rhetoric found in various media platforms, brands, and influential spokespeople. Their exhortation aims to revolutionize capital wealth to natural wealth as a contributing resolution for our collective future welfare, as put forward in the 1987 Brundtland Report. Taking a comparative feminist perspective approach, this presentation explores commonalities of time and space through a mimetic analysis of these three leading voices. The framework will guide further research on sustainable development comparisons with Canada's oceanic and freshwater islands.