This 13 years old Canadian girl silence the world
with her speech while she was in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil, It was the year 1992 and Severn Suzuki was a 12 year old kid. She raised money with the members of the Environmental Childrens organization (ECO) and attended the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro. She gave a six minutes speech there which received a standing ovation from the delegates of the various countries. According to her, a few of them cried too. Her speech was nothing less than a one tight slap on the face of all the Adults who think that spending money on War related activities and developing new weapons is more important than spending it to remove poverty and illiteracy and on environmental Issues. Her speech was hard hitting but whether it lead to some action or not was something Severn herself wrote 10 years later in a Special Report in the TIME called The young cant wait. An
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