Subscribe by Email12-year-old gives pro-environment speech at UN Earth Summit 1992
June 6, 2008 by Kiltak |Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.
Believe it or not, what you are about to see has been filmed in 1992, yet the speech you’ll hear is now more relevant than ever.
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Worshipping GAIA the earth goddess is the new mainstream religion for all of the godless athiests. We are all “eco-sinners” whos sins must be washed by the sacrifice of carbon emissions. The goal is an eden-type utopia where there is no mankind in conflict with nature.
Give me a break.
She may enjoy living a primitive lifestyle and she may not be concerned about being able to find a job after all companies and industries have been shut down or nationalized in the name of Gaia, but some of us like our air conditioning, our Internet, our iPods, and having an income and not being on the government dole (welfare).
And while there’s a lot of hype around all the “oh my god we’re all going to die because the ecosystem will one day collapse” phenomenon, there’s actually a lot of good in what this little girl said.
There is nothing good in what she said; only alarmism and smug elitism.
Dont get me wrong. Im a staunch conservationist. But this girl is not advocating for conservation of the environment. She is a whiny liberal decrying capitalism and begging for redistribution of wealth, under the guise of environmentalism. Communism painted green instead of red is still communism.