The Girl Who Silenced The World For 5 Minutes.

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.

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[45gunner]

How sad, she's afraid of the sun, afraid to eat,drink........While there ARE problems that NEED TO be addressed she has DRANK the kool-aid served by al gore and the sad public education system! How sad!!!

[MindCrimesInc]

Too bad this was all before the Al Gore Global warming scandel/ swindel! The American school system does suck... but she is from Canada... They have one of the BEST education systems in the world! Get the facts straight before you start popping off at the mouth about this girl who is trying to raise awareness about the problems that you, yourself acknowledge need to be addressed.

[USABOTTOMLESSPIT]

who is this extremely smart girl?

[MindCrimesInc]

This speech is by Severn Cullis-Suzuki, who started the Environmental Childrens Organization in Canada when she was nine, and at twelve delivered the above speech to world leaders at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

[strongrickster]

Well done Severn,l that was an awesome speech I will show this to my eight year old daughter her name is Ziggy and when she grows up she is planning to be an astronaut, you are  inspiring many, keep up the good work

[toth1971]

she is honest and wise. she is a great person doing what she did. government makes you sick and an innocent girl comes along telling the so called adults what to do. bravo. such a shame its not 50million hits not  1395?

[Susanne566]

:'D

[NonMirageTV]

She is so right, and everyone knows it, yet we still make, take and throw away everything, honestly I'm not really sure if humans are even worthy of this planet.

[KabooomTV]

@sins9087 yeah, right,but both is important. Cause what the governemnt do is destroying and exploiting other countries and your families are transimiting you the value consensus, teach you to accept and obey conformity. We need to get rid of bith things! NOt only for us but aswell for all

[KabooomTV]

the public education system was invented to meet the need of industrialism not more not less! But NOW it is the TIME to make a revolution in this so called "public education" systemn!

[KabooomTV]

wonderfulllllllllllllllllllll Iam proud of you ! yeah we will rock the world!!!!

[sexywildlad]

Yeah, let's applaude...but now let's get back to business.

[mythikproductions]

idealistic child

[shadyzz954]

@MindCrimesInc: And there's your problem, the education system. How can ANY education system be good when it's all based upon lies?

Using children to spread the lies attacks our sense of morale.

Al Gore created his masses of drones and zealots and now we have to deal with this nonsense along with an education system based upon ideology, lies and zealotry.

This world is DOOMED!

[0lafsky]

Sad but true, yet it changed nothing

[MultiSamsoon]

@neutonik

Very true. People are so dumbed down that they cannot even think of such basic thing.