Listening to our Children

I have to re-post this from Michele's blog:
http://visionarywhites.zaadz.com/blog/2007/11/the_children_speak_-_are_we_listening

This needs to be on prime time even 15 years later.  Who can do this?  Who has the connections?  Where is Severn Suzuki today and what are she and her friends doing?

Quoted from her blog:
Thank you Praveer for guiding me to this touching video. From Praveer's blog…

“As a 9 year old, Severn started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO). By the age of 12, in 1992, Severn and ECO raised their own money and attended the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Here is her viewpoint, presented to influentials at the Summit. It is 'unconscious' of all the justifications, rationales, and theses and excuses about why the world is in the state it is in. It is passionate and a straightforward demand to stop being cynical, resigned and to pretend that something is actually being done that will transform a truly urgent environmental situation.

Al Gore called it the best speech of the convention. It shook me up, and moved me.”


…My dear friend, 15 years later, it moves me too.