The Girl Who Silenced the World for 6 Minutes

Run time: 06:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0   Posted on YouTube: April 18, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 05, 2008 By DU Member: Ichingcarpenter Views on DU: 1955

 
Great video given at UN Conference on the Environment in Brazil, April 1992
by a very smart girl!

Damn......

Of course, our generation did worry about the end of the war, every time we sat under our desks as part of a nuclear bomb drill.
So all this is not completely new.

But hopefully her generation will knock some sense in tthe heads of the world leaders and get them to change their ways.

Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDliXzyAY&feature=related

Thanks, she was still ahead of her time.

...any action on climate change has been completely stalled by the obstinate asses in the White House.

SOMEBODY ought to strap GWB in a room and make him watch that video LOUD for about 36 hours straight. Sitting cold, naked, no food, water, sleep, or clothing - just like they do at Gitmo. Deprive the asshole. For the FIRST time in his life, deprive him of just a tiny iota of what he's depriving everyone (and everything) else of with his psychopathic policies - not that I think he'd emerge any wiser or any more human. He wouldn't.

That man and his crime ring is a hopeless case. I just hope they haven't made US one.

as well as saving the world for future generations. For the ones in power, money trumps everything.

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out...

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait...

You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead...

How I miss John & his music!

:kick:

on edit: how so very sad, the adults listening to her in rapt attention ... yet we still are doing to our planet and her inhabitants the very thing Severn implored us to stop doing.