Global warming is a lie, is it true?-3
A 12-year-old girl named Sevan Suzuki
"legendary speech".
Hello, I’m Severn Suzuki speaking for ECO.
Environmental Children’s Organization.
We are group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds trying to make a difference:
Venessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me.
We’ve raised the all money to come here
to ourselves to come five thousand miles
to tell you adults you must change the ways.
Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda.
I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing
an election or a few points on the stock market.
I am here to speak for all generations to come.
I am here to speak on behalf of the starving
children around the world whose cries go unheard.
I am here to speak for countless animals dying across
this planet because they have nowhere left to go.
I’m afraid to go out in sun now
because of the holes in our ozone.
I’m afraid to breathe the air because
I don’t know what chemicals are in it.
I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad
until just a few years ago we found fish full of cancers.
And now we hear of animals and plants
going extinct every day, vanishing forever.
In my life, I have dreamt of seeing great herds wild animals,
jungles and rainforest full of birds and butterflies.
But now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.
Did you have to worry about these things
when you were my age?
All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if
we have all the time we want and all the solutions.
I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions.
But I want you to realize, neither do you.
You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
You don’t know how to bring the salmon
back up a dead stream.
You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew
where there is now a desert.
If you don’t how to fix it, please stop breaking it.
Here, you may be delegates of your governments,
business people, organizers, reporters or politicians.
But really you are mothers and fathers, sisters
and brothers, aunts and uncles.
And all of you are someone’s child.
I’m only a child, yet I know we’re all part of a family.
Five billion strong, in fact, thirty million species strong.
And borders and governments were never change that.
I’m only a child, yet I know we’re all in this together
and should act as one single world towards one single goal.
In my anger, I’m not blind.
And in my fear, I’m not afraid of telling the world how I feel.
In my country, you make so much waste. you buy and
throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away,
and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy.
Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to share.
We are afraid to let go some of our wealth. In Canada, we live
the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter.
We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.
The list could go on for two days.
Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent
time with some children living on the streets.
This is what one child told us: “I wish I was rich. And if I were,
I would give all the street children food, clothes,
medicines, shelter and love and affection.”
If a child on the streets who has nothing, is willing to share,
why are we who have everything still so greedy?
I can’t stop thinking that these are children
my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference
where you’re born, that I could be one of the children
living in the favellas of Rio.
I could be a child starving in Somalia or a victim of
a war in the Middle East or a beggar in India.
I’m only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war
was spent on finding environmental answers,
ending poverty and finding treaties,
what a wonderful place this earth would be.
At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us
how to behave in the world.
You teach us not to fight with others, to work things out,
to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt
other creatures, to share, not be greedy.
Then why do you go out and do the things
you tell us not to do?
Do not forget why you are attending these conferences,
who you’re doing this for.
We are your own children.
You are deciding what a kind of a world
we are growing up in.
Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying
“everything is going to be all right,” “it’s not the end
of the world” and “we’re doing the best we can.”
But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore.
Are we even on your list of priorities?
My dad always says “you are what you do, not what you say.”
Well, what you do makes me cry at night.
You grown-ups say you love us.
But I challenge you, please make your actions
reflect your words. Thank you.
"Please stop tearing whatever you do not know how to fix it....
If you use all the money used for war, to solve poverty
and environmental problems,
This earth will become a wonderful star.
I am still a child, but I know that. "
wonderful!!!
Actually, until recently, I did not know this "miracle speech".
However, it is my appeal for measures against global warming,
regeneration from environmental destruction,
It is the same as being told about all her "miracle speech".
Environmental destruction, yet at the present point when it can be reproduced, if measures are not taken,
It is too late.
Also, in Japan, there are samples that
overcome pollution of the sea and river of pollution,
In the world, to say that you should be able to
overcome this practice by practicing
It is my greatest appeal.
Let's leave a better environment
for our children and grandchildren!
Actually, until recently, I did not know this "miracle speech".
However, it is my appeal for measures against global warming,
regeneration from environmental destruction,
It is the same as being told about all her "miracle speech".
Environmental destruction, yet at the present point when it can be reproduced, if measures are not taken,
It is too late.
Also, in Japan, there are samples that
overcome pollution of the sea and river of pollution,
In the world, to say that you should be able to
overcome this practice by practicing
It is my greatest appeal.
Let's leave a better environment
for our children and grandchildren!
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