Tree Hugging Prophet

It's hard not to be self-absorbed as a university or college student when it comes to money. Every dollar counts. Can you imagine trying to come up with over two thousand dollars a month to put up a billboard because of your environmental convictions? Read this from the Halifax Chronicle Herald:

A Dalhousie University law student who doesn’t like Nova Scotia’s forestry practices is advertising his displeasure.
Jamie Simpson, who previously worked at the Ecology Action Centre for three years, is behind a Barrington Street billboard that calls the NDP forestry policy “shameful.”
Simpson also has similar websites — clearcutns.com and indiegogo.com/AcadianForest — in which he seeks donations that will help him to keep the billboard up.
The sign costs about $2,300 a month. Simpson collected money from like-minded friends before he paid for the first month. So far, he’s collected $1,100 to pay for a second.
He’s upset that some proposed forestry policies, which he found promising, appear to have been set aside. He referred to recommendations to stop whole-tree harvesting and reduce clearcutting to half of the harvest, neither of which look like they will be implemented.
He believes the provincial government is under too much pressure to keep paper mills open.

The biblical prophets were willing to pay the cost of their convictions, although billboards were not an option! They often spoke out when no one really wanted to hear, and faced hostility and ridicule.

Are you willling to let others know what you believe about issues of Creation Care, even if makes you appear to be a "tree hugger?" What does it take to get you to be bold about your convictions|?