Comments on: 12-year-old gives pro-environment speech at UN Earth Summit 1992

By: Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:51:07 +0000

Hear hear!

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).

By: OJ

OJ — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:19:57 +0000

No, Matu, I’m no bastard. I’m just sick and tired of brainwashed useful idiots like you trying to steal my money and my freedom (and destroy the USA). EnvironMENTALists = communists. AGW is a total hoax. Btw, I’m a conservationist. Bet you don’t even know what that is. Please wake up. I’d help you then.

By: brandon

brandon — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:31:51 +0000

Its easy for kids to say “you adults are ruining the environment for us,” but they all just grow up, realize the situation is more complex than they thought, and pollute just as much as the rest of us.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:34:09 +0000

Not really, there’s just a few people with very strong opinions on such matters.. most won’t comment but appreciate though

By: Matu

Matu — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:58:30 +0000

Wow, I had no idea that most of GAS readers are such bastards.

By: OJ

OJ — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:52:00 +0000

Arrogant, brainwashed little twit. Her parents should be ashamed of themselves. I hope she walked the 5000 miles….the little dope.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:16:39 +0000

I’m not sure… probably not, because it wouldn’t have affected me as much… I remember myself as a kid about 20 years ago, have some of the same reflections she had.. That’s probably why I posted it.

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:16:17 +0000

My pleasure, Kiltak.

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:09:51 +0000

If her speech would have been on pro life and how abortion was bad, or if it had been on the merits of wealth generated by a free market being the key to lift people out of poverty- would you have still posted the video just because she was twelve?

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:08:04 +0000

Somehow, I knew you were going to jump on me because of this one Pat! Thanks for the good laugh

By: BelchSpeak

BelchSpeak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:47:12 +0000

I think she needs a spanking and be sent outside to jump rope with her friends. I looked at her wiki article. The girl is almost 30 and still in school having accomplished exactly zero in her life thus far except racking up a sizeable college debt.

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.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:18:50 +0000

Belch: Lol, you may be right, but you have to admit that this is probably the best speech given by a 12 year old you ever heard

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.