Severn Suzuki was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. While attending Lord Tennyson Elementary School in French Immersion, at the age of nine, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues. In 1992, at the age of 12, Suzuki raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with group members Michelle Quigg, Vanessa Suttie, and Morgan Geisler, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit, where she was applauded for a speech to the delegates. In 1993, she was honoured in the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour. In 1993, Doubleday published her book Tell the World, a 32-page book of environmental steps for families.
The following video has been broadcasted world-wide only thanks to the Internet. Click on the following link to listen to the wise words of the girl who silenced the world for five minutes. Then answer the following questions and give your opinion about Severn's speech in a single paragraph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2g473JWAEg
QUESTIONS
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
23 comments:
She was right, we, people in the world, were greedy.
And now, many years later, we are still greedy, we don't care about nothing but ourselves, and that is the first thing that we need to change to star moving the world.
I liked the video, it shows how can we open the eyes to adults by showing our opinion.
Dani
I think that it is a really surprising video, because before you watch it you think: well, it is going to be another of these boring things that we have to do. But when you are watching it, the strength and the energy that this little girl’s voice (she and her friend only have twelve or thirteen years old) has, it causes you be speechless.
She tries to open our eyes and show us how greedy we are. She reproaches them for all the daily worries that she has because of the environmental problems, like: sunbathe without thinking in the holes of the ozone, breath without thinking in the chemicals are in the air or fishing in a river without contaminate fishes. She also expresses her anger because we have all the possibilities to find a solution about the environmental problems, but we don’t do anything.
Finally, she challenges the entire environmental representative to make their actions reflect their words.
Marta
1. The members of E.C.O are twelve and thirteen years old
2 She says that if the summit audience isn’t the solutions to the problems of the world at least they don’t have to continue destroying the planet
She says that the richest countries, like Canada, don’t share with the poorest countries.
3 She asks the members of the summit and “grown ups” to do things as they are telling their children
Eloi
E.C.O. members are children from 12 to 13 years old.
The girl says that all of them have had lots of opportunities during their whole life. They have seen some animals and plants that are currently extinguished and she reproaches them that, as a consequence of our acts, the next generations will not be able to enjoy all that. She also reproaches the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general that they don’t share anything, that they are afraid to share their goods and possessions.
She asks the “grown ups” in general to follow the same rules that they teach to the young children since kindergarden: to respect others, not to fight, to work things out, to clean out our mess, not to hurt other criatures, to share and not be greedy… She asks them to make their actions reflect their words, because “we are what we do, no what we say”.
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
-E.C.O members are twelve and thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
-She criticizes people who say that they are going to do everything to solve the problems and then they don't do anything.
She criticizes their way to solve their affairs.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
-She asks the members of summit and "grown ups" to do everything that they promise to other people, to their children for example.
She asks this because she wants to change this type of life in the Earth.
1.The E.C.O members are twelve and thirteen years old
2.She is reproaching the summit audience because they are destroying the planet and they aren't doing nothing to solve the Earth problems
She says that the northern countries(riche), don’t share with the poorest countries.
3.She asks the members of the summit and "grown ups" to do the same that they teach at schools,respect others, not fight...
ECO members are a group of twelve and thirteen years olds.
She reproachs that we make so much waste and we just buy and throw away.For example, nothern countries are not willing to share with others countries although they have more than enough.
She wonders why people that have everything they want, are still so greedy.
Since we were children we are taught how to behave in the world: to share,not to fight,not to be greedy...and now why are adults behaving in such a different way, a way completely opposite to what we've learned since we were little children?
Consequently, she thinks we should change our ways because we're all in this together and we should act as one single world now more tan ever before.
Alba Prió
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
They are twelve to thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
She said to the audience that they all are fathers, mothers, uncles, etc. so they have to be worried about the future of his child.
Also she says that in northern countries the people make so much waste, the buy and throw away, and at the same time in countries like Basil, a lot of children can’t eat because they are very poor.
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She asks to the member not to be hypocrites. She said that society teach at the schools not to fight, to respect the others, etc. but if the society fight, don’t respect the others, etc. it don’t make any sense to teach all of this good things to the children.
E.C.O. members are 12 and 13 years old.
Suzuki is reproaching the adults for destroying the world's enviroment too quickly, without knowing how to repair the damage. She wonders if her future will be as the ones that the past generations had, or if in 20 years the world will be too changed to be recognizable.
In order to end or reduce the world's autodestruction, all countries should share and cooperate together, should put away social and political differences so as to fix our errors.
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
The E.C.O members are a group of children who are twelve and thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
Severn reproach the summit audience to continue destroing the planet if they don't know how to solve its actual problems.
She tell us that in northern countries people have more than the need but they don't share because they are afraid of losing their wealth.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
She ask the members of the summit and "grown ups" why they don't do what they teach to the children.
I'm completely agree with Severn Suzuki, we are in this world to keep it, not to destroy it. All the things she says are really true, but the most incredible is the way she tells things and the confidence she has just with thirteen years old, as her colleages of E.C.O. organization, who have twelve and thirteen.
All she begs for is that the summit audience do his best on the environment issues; and blame people not to share. She says that we only buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and that we have more things that what we need.
In addition, she reproaches the summit audience, business people, politicians in particular and the northern countries in general that they must make their actions to improve the environment and the world, and not to spend so much money in wars, spent it on finding environmental answers, in poverty,...we are what we do, not what we say.
Moreover, she asks the members of the summit to “grown ups”: they must do the things that they teach to children in schools, not the things that they are not going to do. And also if they don't know how to fix it, they don't destroy it.
This video does that we find about the little that we worry for the environment and the poverty.
She critices that the adults don't act like what they say. They teach us that we treat well the environment and we try to help the poor people but they don't to do anything for to change the world situation.
She also says that northern countries, like Canada that they have a lot of things, doesn't to help the countries that have a lot of needs.
In conclusion, nowadays we destroy our planet and there is an important imbalance between countries.
Laia Toll 2B
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
People of E.C.O. are twelve ans thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
She reproaches that the world is changing, animals and plants are being extinguished and nobody does nothing to change that. She says too that if summit audience can't do anything to repair the problems, what they shouldn't do is continue destroying the planet.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
She asks the "grown ups" that they should do the same "concepts" that they are teaching to their children and that they are trying to teach to us.
Alba.
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
The members of E.C.O are twelve and thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
she is reproaching that the people are destroying the world and they don't thing about the future.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
She wants the adults to do the same thing that children are told to do, she also says thet adults shouldn't be so greedy
MARIA
1.E.C.O’s members are twelve and thirteen years old.
2.She reproaches that much people say that they must solution the world situation but they don’t do anything. It’s easy to say but difficult to do.
3.She asks to the members of summit and “grown ups” to do all the things that they explain to their children. For example if the parents explain to their children that to fight is bad, but the children can see that all the society are fighting, this educations is not necessary.
Aina Barca
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
- The members of ECO are twelve and thirteen years.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
- Severn complains that the government doesn't fix anything that is happening in the world and offering solutions but never fix anything, and she is afraid because the ever since everything is getting worse and have less money for other things such as wars and not for what is important like poverty or the world's environment.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
- Severn only asking is that everything they say they are going to make it comply with the objective of changing the world and enhance all.
Vanesa Madrid
1. E.C.O. members are children from 12 to 13 years old.
2. She criticizes the way that politicians follow to solve the envirolmental and other big world problems. She remember the audience that they are parents too, therefore they should be concerned about their child’s future.
Regarding the northern countries ( the rich countries ), she says that they don’t make an effort to help the poor countries. They only make hypocritical actions.
3. She wants politicians to carry out their promises. She wants a respectful and supportive society to change the present way of humanity.
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
They are twelve and thirteen years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
She reproach people say that world need change but anyone do anything to this problem.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
When we went to school teachers and parents educated to respect the world, friends, animals...
today she say that the grown ups do the same that they educated when we are childrens.
1. How old are E.C.O. members?
E.C.O. members are children from 12 to 13 years old.
2. What does Severn reproach the summit audience in particular and the northern countries in general?
She reproach people say that world need change but anyone do anything to this problem.The people don't think about de future and the people is selfish and they only worry about themselves.
3. What does she ask the members of the summit and “grown ups” in general to do?
She asks the members of the summit and "grown ups" to do the same that they teach at schools,respect others,to respect the world, friends, animals, not fight...
kelian
It's important that in our world there will be more people like this girl.
People who are not afraid to get out in front of so many people and tell the truth.
Some times,young people see the world better than old people and is important to us that this young generation will begin to denounce everything that happens in the world. May be, we can change the situation if everyone involved.
I like this vidio. I like this kind of people
Joan
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