[情報] 里約的傳奇演講 - 生態環境討論

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作者: choyo (天天天藍) 看板: Eco-worker
標題: [情報] 里約的傳奇演講
時間: Thu Apr 26 20:16:13 2007


西元1992年6月11日
聯合國地球環境高峰會議於巴西里約熱內盧召開
一位12歲的日裔加拿大女孩Severn Cullis-Suzuki
在冠蓋雲集的世界各國領導人面前
發表了一篇僅有8分鐘的演說
許多人認為這是一場傳奇的演講
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2g473JWAEg

演說的內容主要針對日益惡化的環境問題以及貧窮問題
希望在座的世界各國領導人可以終止戰爭 停止破壞環境
將這些用於破壞世界的經費
挪為解決環境問題、幫助貧困的孩子就學所用

Severn大我一歲
想想我在國小畢業的時候做的事情
很難想像一個國小要畢業的學生可以給這樣的一個演講
如果上網路搜尋她的名字
可以找到一狗票與她相關的網頁
甚至維基百科都有她的介紹
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki



以下是她演講的全文

Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, Rio Centro, Brazil 1992
By Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. -
The Environmental Children's organization.
We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying
to make a difference:
Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me.
We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to
tell you adults you must change your ways.
Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda.
I am fighting for my future.
Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on
the stock market.

I am here to speak for all generations to come.
I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the
world whose cries go unheard.
I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this
planet because they have nowhere left to go.
We cannot afford to be not heard.
I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the
ozone.
I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals
are in it.
I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years
ago we found the fish full of cancers.
And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day -
vanishing forever.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals,
jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder
if they will even exist for my children to see.
Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?
All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have
all the time we want and all the solutions.
I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you
to realize, neither do you!

You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream.
You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.

If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people,
organizers , reporters or politicians - but really you are mothers
and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and all of you
are somebody's child.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family,
five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all
share the same air, water and soil - borders and governments will
never change that.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should
act as one single world towards one single goal.
In my anger, I am not blind; and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell
the world how I feel.
In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and
throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy.
Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our
wealth, afraid to share.

In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water
and shelter - we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.
Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time
with some children living on the streets.

And this is what one child told us:
"I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children
food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection."
If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share,
why are we who have everything still so greedy?

I can't stop thinking that these children are my age, that it makes
a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of
those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I could be a child
starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar
in India.

I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent
on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful
place this earth would be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world.
You teach us:
not to fight with others,
to work things out,
to respect others,
to clean up our mess,
not to hurt other creatures
to share - not be greedy

Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?
Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're
doing this for - we are your own children.

You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in.
Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying
"everything's going to be alright', "we're doing the best we can"
and "it's not the end of the world".
But I don't think you can say that to us anymore.
Are we even on your list of priorities?
My father always says "You are what you do, not what you say."
Well, what you do makes me cry at night. you grown ups say you love us.
I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words.

Thank you for listening.

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