Thursday, June 21, 2012

At Rio+20, Severn Cullis-Suzuki Revisits Historic '92 Speech, Fights for Next Generation's Survival


At Rio+20, Severn Cullis-Suzuki Revisits Historic '92 Speech, Fights for Next Generation's Survival




In 1992, 12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki became known as "the girl who silenced the world for six minutes" after she addressed delegates in Rio de Janeiro during the summit’s plenary session. We air Cullis-Suzuki’s historic address and speak to her from the Rio+20 summit, which she comes back to now as a veteran international environmental campaigner and mother of two. "Twenty years later, the world is still talking about a speech, a six-minute speech that a 12-year-old gave to world leaders," Cullis-Suzuki says. "Why? It is because the world is hungry to hear the truth, and it is nowhere articulated as well as from the mouths of those with everything at stake, which is youth." [includes rush transcript]

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki, delivered a famous speech at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and is now a veteran international environmental campaigner and mother of two, attending the Rio+20 summit.
 

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 25, 2012

    Please do some research into Agenda 21.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM

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  2. Yes, I have come to the conclusion that whenever we have a problem, the powers-that-be do not look for real solutions, but rather look for ways to make money off the problems. And hence, the problems become compounded upon each other. We need to get to the roots of the problems. Ohterwise, we just live a lie. We become people of the lie.

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