Hello, My name Severn Suzuki, speaking for ECO - Environmental Children's Organization We are a group of Canada which consisted of children aged 12 and 13 years, who tried to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morga, Geister, Michelle Quiq and myself.
We raise funds to be able to come here as far as 6000 miles to tell you all the adults that you must change your ways, today here, too. I do not have a hidden agenda. I want a future for myself only.
Loss of the future is not the same as losing the general election or losses in the stock market. I was here to speak for all generations to come.
I was here representing the children wrote hunger around the world
who cries no longer heard.
I was here to speak for the animals dying without number throughout the planet due to loss of habitat. We can not not listen.
I was afraid to be under the sun because
berlubangnya ozone layer. I was afraid to breathe because I did not know there was so-chemicals carried by air.
I often fishing in Vancouver with my dad until a few years ago we found that the fish full of cancers. And now we hear that animals and plants extinct one by one each day - gone forever.
In my life, I have a dream to see a large collection of wild animals, jungles and tropical forests full of birds and butterflies. But now I do not know whether these things were even there to see my son later.
Are you all having to worry about small problems when you are all still the same age I am now serperti?
All this happened in front of us and although we still
act like we still have a lot of time and all the solutions. I was just a kid and I do not have all the solutions. But I want you all to realize that you are all also the same as me!
You do not know how to fix a hole in our ozone layer. You do not know how how to restore the salmon fish into the river of origin. You do not know how to restore the animals that have become extinct.
And you can not restore the forests as new in its place, which is now just a desert. If you do not know how to fix them. PLEASE STOP ruin it!
Here you are delegates your country. Entrepreneurs, association members, journalists or politicians - but really you are the father and mother, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts - and you all are children of a person.
I was just a kid, but I know that we are all part of a large family, consisting of more than 5 billion, consisting of 30 million families and we all share the air, water and soil on the same planet - borders and governments will not be change it.
I was just a kid but once I know that we
all face the same problems and we should unite for the same purpose.
Although angry, but I'm not blind, and even fear, I did not hesitate to tell the world what I feel.
In my country, we are very much to waste. We
buy something and then thrown away, to buy and then discard.
Although it remains only countries in the North will not be shared with those in need. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, we are afraid to share.
In Canada we have a comfortable life, with clothing, food and shelter are inadequate - we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.
Two days ago here in Brazil, we were surprised when we
spending time with children who live on the streets. And one child told us: "I wish I was rich, and if I'm rich, I will give street children food, clothing and medicine, shelter, love and affection".
If a child who was on the streets and do not have any,
willing to share, why do we who have everything still
so greedy?
I can not stop thinking that these kids the same age with me, that place of birth you can make a difference so great, that I might be one of the children who live in Favellas in Rio; I might be a child famine in Somalia; a middle eastern war victims or a beggar in India.
I was just a kid, but I knew that if all the money spent on the war used to reduce poverty and find answers to the problems of nature, how would the world be beautiful.
At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to do good. You taught us to not fight with others, to find a way out, clean up the mess that we caused; to not harm other living beings, to share and not greedy.
Then why did you then do things that you taught us to not to do it?
Do not forget why you are attending this conference, why did you do this - we are your children all. Sekalianlah you decide, what kind of world would we live.
His parents should be able to give comfort to their children by saying: "Everything will be fine, 'we're doing the best we can do and this is not the end of everything."
But I do not feel that you can say it
to us again. Are we even on the list of all your priorities? My dad always said, "You will always be remembered for his deeds, not by your words".
So, what you do makes me cry at night. You adults say that you love us. I challenge YOU, try to realize those words.
Thank you for your attention.