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- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -7/+218That's David Suzuki's daughter.
And she's following her father's footsteps.
I'd post her accomplishments but the length of the damn thing would get me buried to oblivion, so here's a link: http://www.sloth.gr.jp/Severn-Ebiography.htm
She's basically wonderwoman. Excells in everything, including a large number of sports. - Lagger, on 06/05/2008, -3/+208direct youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDliXzyAY
- thirdeyeopen, on 06/06/2008, -14/+187wow, this actually really is older than the internet
- DavidtheMavin, on 11/11/2008, -16/+176It's sad that the problems of the world are so apparent to children today. I think we really need to start following our own advice as adults and parents. Great speech!
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -16/+134Great speech! but it is also very apparent that unfortunately our modern information age definitely took away the innocence of childhood. I'm not saying that 'ignorance is bliss', but when I was a child I hardly knew the world beyond the neighborhood block. The best part of childhood is living worry-free even if your country is waging war or being attacked.
- jamdogg, on 06/05/2008, -6/+80It's an old video, but what she says is more relevant now than ever.
- alapoet, on 06/05/2008, -4/+58I wonder whatever became of Severn? She'd be 28 years old now.
- dennisrhidalgo, on 06/05/2008, -19/+71What a motivational speaker this "child" is! It just moves me to activism.
- Conway, on 06/05/2008, -6/+52She's a hottie now.
http://www.top20under20.ca/en/MentorProgram/scsuzu ... - jake86, on 06/06/2008, -1/+45Since when do adults listen to kids?
- SeraphimJulius, on 06/06/2008, -3/+45I loved how she rhetorically ask if the people in the UN had to worry about the environment when they were 12...
They just had to worry about Nazis, the USSR, and other crazy things when most of them were 12...
I do agree with her point though, we need to save the earth. But in order to do this you have to change how people in our generation think and act...
I wish whoever takes up that endeavor the best of luck, for they have one of the hardest goals to ever achieve...changing the way humans behave towards almost everything... - greevar, on 06/06/2008, -5/+45It saddens me that this was said by a 12 year old 16 years ago and yet nothing has changed. In fact, we are doing the very opposite.
- corbettkroehler, on 06/05/2008, -13/+50Karl Roeve doesn't target his disinformation campaign at this demographic. That's part of why they see the truth so clearly.
- Schmich, on 06/06/2008, -3/+40The second one mainly being due to the first one.
- bluevillage, on 06/05/2008, -12/+47Now here's the first woman president! (Though she's Canadian)
- triplehelix, on 06/05/2008, -4/+34the idea of an ignorant childhood is a relatively recent phenomenon.
- danryan, on 06/06/2008, -3/+30Narrator: and the U.N. un-nazied the world - forever.
- alapoet, on 06/05/2008, -9/+35This gives me hope for the future...
- tehbored, on 06/06/2008, -3/+29Does she have superhuman strength and bracelets that can deflect ***** anything?
- wild, on 06/05/2008, -10/+35There are holes in the ozone?
- aelias, on 06/06/2008, -0/+22She's better than me. If there can be only one dose left, I say give her the cure.
- inactive, on 06/05/2008, -3/+25It's just as relevant now.
Some truths don't go bad with age. - makkaveli19, on 06/06/2008, -1/+23thank you. only the privileged have these so called worry-free childhoods. many kids see their siblings die, have to provide food for their families, and already understand the cruelty of the world in the single digit ages.
- lucutus, on 06/06/2008, -7/+28***** Awesome. STFU about how old it is it's still true, hell even more true now.
- nkstn, on 06/06/2008, -0/+20Well.. I feel like *****
- agjimenez, on 06/06/2008, -2/+21It was some great rhetoric, but the phrase "deaf ears" comes to mind.
- batmanz, on 06/06/2008, -1/+19There's a wikipedia article on her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki - yuanzhoulu, on 06/06/2008, -4/+22it's sad that i can't even convince my freaking research group here at my university to recycle. at a reception after a thesis defense i put the recycle bin closer to the food and moved the trash cans far away and nobody even thought to recycle; they just walked all the way put all their plastic ware in the trash as if the recycle bin weren't even there. all dining in the university uses exclusively disposable plates as well, 99% of which go into the trash and not recycling afterwards.
convincing people to use public transportation also just doesn't seem to work. last time i was at a dorm event i brought my own plate and some guy said to me "What are you trying to do, save a tree?" *all his friends and he chuckle*
the same guy also insisted on driving to places where there was plenty of public transportation. when i asked him, he simply said, "no, screw that, to get girls you need to drive."
it's embarrassing that such a prominent university has such people in it. - tehbored, on 06/06/2008, -4/+22Inspiring. Old, but still inspiring.
- dafragsta, on 06/06/2008, -7/+24While I can empathize with the distaste for environmental recklessness that she's talking about, I also HATE blindly listing things she's heard about second hand and assuming she's got it all figured out. Yeah, 199x kid, I hear ya, but did you and your dad actually CATCH a fish, and run a PET scan on it for cancer? That hole in the ozone? It's taken care of. I've said it before and I'll say it again, just pulling ***** out of your ass in the name of activism is only slightly less truthful than pulling ***** out of yoru ass to go to war.
Do I give a ***** about the environment? Yes, I do. I also give a ***** about this culture of manipulation through lies and exaggeration that is permissible by some and not by others. Our society is not about being pragmatic, but about "feelings" and whipping the people into shape by means of grand emotional gestures, even if they aren't 100% true.
Bury me, I don't give a *****, but just know that lies on one side don't counterbalance lies on the other. - ostracize, on 06/06/2008, -3/+19Thanks for ruining it.
- ileftfark, on 06/06/2008, -4/+20You're really not much use to me, so...
- MrSlumberjack, on 06/06/2008, -1/+16*****, I though she was still 12.
- Tyrghast, on 06/06/2008, -0/+15If she doesn't already, she'll be the one to develop and market them.
- jmignea2, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14I knew she had to be David's daughter. An amazing man who apparently raised an amazing daughter.
- KyleGoetz, on 06/06/2008, -5/+19Almost. The Web came about in 1989, which means the internet must have preceded it. The internet was commercialized in 1988, so we might as well call that the birth of the internet (rather than ARPANET).
- TantrooM, on 06/06/2008, -2/+16Or sitting in your desk chair and bitching about the world in cyberspace.
- BlackSheep720, on 06/05/2008, -10/+23I'm more fearful of people like you than I am of issues like global warming.
- MadHermit, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14Keep it up! One plant at a time. One plate, one gallon of gas. It adds up.
- Hobohatstealer, on 06/06/2008, -2/+14Right so anyone notice that much less than half of the chairs in the audience was absent. I mean I could expect that from like Sudan, but Spain. Come on.
- Tyrghast, on 06/06/2008, -15/+27NEWS FLASH: The UN can't do crap! They don't even have the balls to remove the US from it's prominent positions in many council's after the invasion of Iraq. Hell, the American people don't even have the balls to do anything about the war criminal tyrant in office. The age of activism is over, all hail the age of sitting on the couch and eagerly lapping up anything we see on TV!
- TheBSG, on 06/06/2008, -2/+14Dugg for "If you don't know how to fix it, please: Stop Breaking it."
- Neticule, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11Thanks, site went down as soon as it hit front page
- brotherfranciz, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11Hmm, I had no idea who David Suzuki was... for others like me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki - DrWednesday, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11She probably kept saying the same things, which are impressive when a 12 year old says them but easily dismissed when a 25 year old says them, even though they should not be dismissed.
- repick3, on 06/06/2008, -2/+12She's a better speaker than McCain.
- wonkavsn, on 06/06/2008, -5/+15But the words remain true
- rectagon, on 06/06/2008, -2/+11She's the daughter of a well known Canadian environmentalist/activist/tv-personality and she's was NOT just some kid who was making this... she he father's daughter. Still, what she says may be true but it loses it's "quaintness" for sure.
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