The grandmother

In brief, she fled home on a Greyhound, passed a Video Ezy store in Calgary, road a ferry or two, moved to Berkeley California to live with her sister for a couple years, sat in on University lectures regarding the environment, came home, studied to become a Terraforming specialist to "save the planet", afraid it was doomed and became a pioneer on an extraterrestrial colonisation project (Earth was saved anyway), grew up wary of unfettered progress, stayed on the Martian (Lunar?) colony which remained relatively conservative, where as Earth smoothed out and liberalised.  Her grand daughter was named Video Ezy, in part because her daughter appreciated her stories of independence, especially given the strain of her son-in-law's job taking him for months/a whole year.