In all honesty we’re surprised we’ve never seen it before.
Why it
hasn’t come up on our friend’s Facebook page posts or why over the past
20 years we’ve never seen it grace the screen of our television sets.
The video is titled “The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes”
and is the filming of a speech made in 1992 by then-12-year-old Severn
Cullis-Suzuki as she addressed the United Nations and a room full of
adults at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
She is the daughter of famous geneticist and environmental activist
David Suzuki and in 1999 she founded the Environmental Children’s
Organization (ECO).
On this occasion she and her three accompanying friends had
self-funded their trip from Canada to make a speech to the international
community and country representatives.
Speaking directly and authoritatively she confidently pronounced she
had come “to speak for all generations to come” as a girl “fighting for
her future”.
She spoke “on behalf of” the world’s starving children and dying
animals. She told of her fears about the world’s suffering eco systems
and devastating changes to the environment and then she added:
