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karmatube.org — This 12 Year old makes more sense than any politician I have ever heard. Please dupe, shout, get this video out!!

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  • greenguy2323, on 06/23/2008, -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!
    • spoogieking012, on 06/06/2008, -2/+8and this speech is certainly much more effective coming from a child
    • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -20/+6Hey *****, she's 27 years old, this was filmed in 1992
      • Bots, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4lol.. was i the only one that laughed at this comment? ;(
        • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -1/+1Diggers are funny like that.
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      • dggeek, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

        born 1979
      • bpoteat, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2She grew up to be pretty hot too.
    • agjimenez, on 06/06/2008, -2/+21It was some great rhetoric, but the phrase "deaf ears" comes to mind.
      • Bean888, on 06/06/2008, -7/+2Was there any substance or specifics? I turned it off after the first minute, which was mostly rhetoric.
      • bugsy187, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2"Severn gave this powerful speech that deeply affected (and silenced) some of the most prominent world leaders. The speech had such an impact that she has become a frequent invitee to many U.N. conferences."
    • HanSolo69, on 06/06/2008, -6/+3Yeah, I mean, wouldn't it be great if our children grew up ignorant to the problems surrounding them so that they came in the the adult world totally unprepared?
    • techmaster, on 06/06/2008, -9/+6Too late now, we only have roughly 4 more years until the world ends...
      • SilverBlade2k, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5That's if you believe the Mayan calender..
      • Jacpot56, on 06/06/2008, -3/+8I follow my own calender, and according to it in 4 years when the world Doesn't end I am supposed to go to your house and beat you till you cry for scaring me with this BS.
      • IllBeBack, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3You should do a little research about the Mayan calendar before you repeat myths about how it predicts the end of the world, which it does not.
      • GofG, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3I don't think he was being serious.
    • thedrue, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3It seems like the problem isn't the first-world not helping the poor but the third-world continuing to propagate poorness. Oh and if the middle east would stop blowing itself up and use their wealth in a reasonable way that whole region could be like Qatar.
      • Elephant789, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3It's the west that keeps them poor.
      • Elephant789, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3It's the west that keeps the third world poor.
      • GeneralFault, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2thedrue, sounds like something I heard a bit in elementary school:
        Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself! Why do you keep hitting yourself?
      • MonexFRAUD, on 09/17/2008, -0/+0You should probably think about investing in gold and silver in these troubled times. Gold and silver can be a good hedge against economic volatility as long as you're not doing a leveraged trade. http://www.monexfraud.com You may wish to invest in the gold ETF (GLD) or the silver ETF (SLV) in a non-margin account. This is the least expensive way to invest. If you feel a need to to take delivery of your metals be extra cautious about who you buy from. Check the Better Business Bureau for complaints, ratings, and adviseries. Also check RipoffReport.com for complaints and read how or if they were handled. At http://www.monexfraud.com all the information you need about Monex Deposit Company is conveniently gathered in one place. Monex is the worst company you can buy precious metals from so do yourself a favor and don't do it. Go to http://www.monexfraud.com and you'll see what I mean!
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    • 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.
      • MadHermit, on 06/06/2008, -1/+14Keep it up! One plant at a time. One plate, one gallon of gas. It adds up.
      • warriorscot, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4I suppose I should be thankful my uni is just about the exact opposite, they make it pretty hard not to recycle they are even fitting solar panels and installing new combined heat and power systems to the university. And almost nobody uses a car to get around unless they commute from quite far or an awkward place in terms of public transport.

        The reason people here use public transport is that none of us can afford otherwise, and when we recycle and reduce the Universities waste the government provides grants and tax breaks to the university and that goes straight back into improving the Uni.

        If you want things to change why don't you sit for an elected student position, the union president has allot of say in how the unions are run and if the unions recycle the rest of the university usually follows suit. You can also elect a new Rector/president if your university has a system that allows them to be elected by the students and promote a candidate with green credentials.
        • yuanzhoulu, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1i am in an elected student position. it's easy to convince the uppers at my university to spend money towards green stuff. but it's not easy to change peoples' habits and until that changes the spending just doesn't do much.
        • GeneralFault, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Not to excuse the simplicity and stupidity of the public... but perhaps some of the people were not recycling the plastic ware simply because most municipal recycling facilities do not except that type of plastic. Maybe, just maybe one or two people in that group didn't recycle because they knew that it would do no good. I think a bigger emphasis needs to be put on the limitations of todays recycling technology. It is something that should be improved as soon as possible.
      • katiekatekate, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Maybe next time just make a brief announcement that recycling bins are provided and we invite you to use them. I admit I probably would not have used the recycle bins either. Around here they are so picky about what you can put in them I've just become a little gun-shy about it. But if told specifically "yes, that's recyclable" then of course I'd rather do that than put it in the trash.
    • aldol, on 06/06/2008, -2/+7the speech was made 16 years ago, not the children of today
      • aetherboy, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4Not only that but her Skyfish project website is now owned by some domain squatter with a parked page up. The net consumes all.
    • Sluglas, on 06/06/2008, -1/+0Apparent to a child? Yeah, she though that up all by herself.

      Regards,

      Santa Claus
    • bobangitanov2, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1It's called whining. Anybody can do it. Especially at 12.
  • dennisrhidalgo, on 06/05/2008, -19/+71What a motivational speaker this "child" is! It just moves me to activism.
    • provost, on 06/06/2008, -10/+11however, some of the speech is loaded and made up.
      she said that she found fish full of cancer. Fish don't get cancer. Don't believe me? Look it up.

      also, she just got there, but has a speech about spending time on the streets for 2 days with the kids and what the kids told her.

      I credit her for the pleas though. Her intentions are good.
      • alexforcefive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9I think she meant "cankers", like sores
      • Godlike, on 06/06/2008, -0/+9This is the real story. "Fish don't get cancer" is way over generalized.

        http://www.epa.gov/GED/publica/c0831.htm
      • yodacallmesome, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6Come on she was 12. I took this statement to mean "the fish are becoming full of carcinogens".
        • muzy, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Agreed!!!, moreover, as an adult we should know that she meant the fish is ill
        • swizzcheez, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3So what? Her age is meaningless when it comes to rational decision making. If her argument is based on shaky ground then that should be in consideration when considering the validity of the conclusions.
    • 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.
      • SmokedL, on 06/06/2008, -3/+8"I also HATE blindly listing things she's heard about second hand and assuming she's got it all figured out. "
        She specifically says that she does not have all the fixes. She's asking them to stop breaking it since they don't either. She's asking them if future generations is on their list of priorities at all.

        "That hole in the ozone? It's taken care of."
        The ozone is better, yes. "taken care of"? That's debatable to say the least.
        The speech was in 1992, the Ozone was "taken care of" in 1992?

        "did you and your dad actually CATCH a fish, and run a PET scan on it for cancer?"
        The only way to spot cancer is personally running a PET scan?
        Her father is David Suzuki. As in http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ . You think just maybe he knows how to spot cancer or has the resources to have the fish analyzed? I'd say it's an absolute certainty.

        Your arguments seem coherent on the surface, but I've heard the same sort of rhetoric for decades. It's just an attempt (Usually, I suspect, subconsciously motivated by fear or laziness.) to divert attention from the very important and frightening issue at hand by concentrating on any possible exaggerations. Exaggerations that in no way change the truth and reality of the big picture. Being able to semi-coherently complain about exaggerations is so very convenient as an excuse for doing nothing and just putting it out of your mind.
        • dafragsta, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3I never said it wasn't a real issue that didn't merit attention. My point is that the culture of motivating people with exaggeration and cherry-picked facts is pervasive and that means that environmentalists (GreenPeace comes to mind specifically) use the exact same scare tactics as the neocons. You could make a valid case for apprehension in both cases, but I think the reason a lot of people don't take these things seriously is that it's all either a bunch of problems shown under the magnifying glass and no proposed solutions. This sets people up to be suckers.

          Do carbon credits help the environment? That's debatable. Does wind generated energy help the environment by minimizing the pollution and CO2 deposited into the atmosphere, most definitely. So you have a node created by the fear and two solutions of vastly varying contribution branching off from that node toward fixing that problem and often times the solutions can just be a wolf in sheeps clothing looking to move legislation or get money as opposed to fixing the problem.

          I liken this to supporters of politicians who identify more with the vague principles of that politician's party and certain things they like about the image THEY project onto the politician. A good example would be a recent episode of the Daily Show where a HIllary supporter thought it was important to note that he supported Hillary and that he was as "gay as the day is long." What do the two have to do with each other? Is Barack Obama decidedly less gay friendly? Of course not, but that didn't matter to this guy, but I digress.
    • mrwoo, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4I think someone else wrote her speech, and no way did she go all that way on her own. Message is right, but using kids to get a message across always makes me cringe.
    • TEKJester, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2Exactly, her "quoting" a brazilian kid, its so fabricated. ***** that, her daddy is using her. Her dad is an environmental acitivist with his TV show living vicariously through his baby.
    • trevorbadly, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1"I am only a child" and can sense the BS.
  • 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.
    • triplehelix, on 06/05/2008, -4/+34the idea of an ignorant childhood is a relatively recent phenomenon.
      • 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.
        • Branbot, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3Wow what era do you live in? The 1920's? Providing food for your family at a single digit age would be considered child labor here in America. And what does seeing people die have anything to do with a child's innocence? I have a friend who grew up in a funeral home and we played all day in the sun and he never once said, "Hold on I gotta go do my taxes." Silly...
        • makkaveli19, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1wow, is america the world. get your head out of your ass and look around you. even in farms today in developed countries kids have to work and help out. this is nothing compared to what goes on in third and second world countries.
      • Branbot, on 06/06/2008, -4/+1Triple, if Stevie Wonder and Supertramp both have bad ass songs about a child's innocence (Will Smith ruined one.), I'd say it has to be a decently old idea wouldn't you? Hey even Chuck Berry has a song about how innocent he was as a child. Old idea, you lose. Music Industry: 1 You: 0
        • triplehelix, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2you think in relation to the millenia of human existence, even the time of chuck berry isn't relatively recent? *****, the entire music industry is a relatively recent thing on the human time line.
    • mnemy, on 06/06/2008, -1/+8Ehh. Judging from the quality of the video, I was probably about her age when it was recorded. I was plenty happy at that age.
      • Joshuarr, on 06/06/2008, -3/+6This is pretty easy math dude. It was 1992, and she was 12...
    • krnldmp, on 06/06/2008, -8/+3You mean the best part of being a baby, not childhood. Childhood is what you have to go through in order to become a #&*!@*# adult. Too many people don't!
      • fakekevinrose, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2what is a "#&*!@*# adult"?
        Is that some variety of mentally handicapped adult?
    • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -7/+3Shes 27.

      Video from 1992
    • PhobosDeimos, on 06/06/2008, -5/+1But the fish, they are full of cancers!
    • jerbaker, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4The information age didn't take away the innocence of childhood. When I was twelve I was reading Mikhail Gorbachev's book, Perestroika. I was aware of the massive debt the United States was racking up. I knew who Oliver North was, and how he got caught when a cargo plane piloted by Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua. I was aware of Iran-Contra and how disappointed I was that an American President would sell out his country by selling arms to terrorist states. I just think it depends on how you grew up. The Internet doesn't have a lot to do with it.
      • Branbot, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Uh...I was playing Poke'Mon when I was twelve and reading my grandma's collection of hardy boys. I have a feeling your childhood was filled with lashings and school. Poor kid...
        • Sansui, on 06/06/2008, -0/+5I don't know. I think I pity you more for having played PokeMon.
        • jerbaker, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Actually, my GPA in middle school was about 1.5. I was too busy lighting M80s, setting fires, and engaging in general mischief to be bothered with school. It drove my teachers batty that I could ace their tests as long as they could get me to stop shooting spit balls.
    • chadell, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1very true, I grew up in Zambia when South Africans, zimbabweans, angolans, mozambique were refugees in the town i lived. I had no worries or bothered about bombs that were dropped on refugee camps by South african/Zimbabwean forces.
    • turturis, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Wrong!!!

      Children, in most of the world throughout 99.99999% of history, have never lived "worry free". It wasn't until after the depression and WWII that people started shielding their children from the worries of the day.

      Children have always been in the know. Children used to participate. It IS children who see with transparency and it IS their beauty. Yet we try to stifle them so they can live in this so called "worry free"state.

      PHOOEY!!!
  • corbettkroehler, on 06/05/2008, -14/+50Karl Roeve doesn't target his disinformation campaign at this demographic. That's part of why they see the truth so clearly.
    • jordanlgta, on 06/06/2008, -2/+10*Rove

      Well, actually who cares how you spell it...he's still an *****.
    • spankaccount, on 06/06/2008, -6/+3Karl Rove is a brilliant political strategist - he's just not working for the Digg party. Actually, he isn't working for Bush anymore either so your talking points are a bit dated. Maybe you could try using the term "neocon" in a sentence?
    • olithebumm, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1Misread as Kevin Rose
      Sorry
  • alapoet, on 06/05/2008, -9/+35This gives me hope for the future...
    • lazyrussian, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Suzuki
    • Knucklecallus, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4This should've given you hope 16 years ago, its a little late now.
      • sfacets, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Didn't see it 16 years ago. Youtube hasn't been around that long for one...
      • Knucklecallus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6The point is, this isn't happening now. I would feel hopeful if that girl had just given that speech, because it looked like the UN might have actually cared. But, 16 years later, we don't really see any of her recommendations being taken into consideration, do we?
  • alapoet, on 06/05/2008, -4/+58I wonder whatever became of Severn? She'd be 28 years old now.
  • ElAssoWipo, 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.
    • tehbored, on 06/06/2008, -3/+29Does she have superhuman strength and bracelets that can deflect ***** anything?
      • Tyrghast, on 06/06/2008, -0/+15If she doesn't already, she'll be the one to develop and market them.
        • AzureRise, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8And they'll be environmentally friendly.
      • temporaryescape, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1does she have the ***** of a seven year old?
    • jmignea2, on 06/06/2008, -0/+14I knew she had to be David's daughter. An amazing man who apparently raised an amazing daughter.
    • 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.
    • nkstn, on 06/06/2008, -0/+20Well.. I feel like *****
    • Snoosy, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3David Sukuki is the man. I wonder if she's a raging pothead as well?
    • TheGambit, on 06/06/2008, -4/+6what?!? she doesn't blog?

      Buried.
    • 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
    • ferkranus, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1David Suzuki continues to be incredibly active...just yesterday I saw him in a commercial for switching to energy saving light bulbs....gotta love him! It does not surprise me at all that he raised such a wonderful daughter.
      He's a Canadian legend.
    • dhayes501, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2where has she been the last 5 years?
    • Mackofalltrades, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2David Suzuki? The guy who broke into my house and changed my lightbulbs?
  • voodoosteve84, on 06/05/2008, -14/+8Daaaaaamn, girl....
  • jamdogg, on 06/05/2008, -5/+80It's an old video, but what she says is more relevant now than ever.
    • lamiaconfitor, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3it is an exponential curve, isn't it?
  • wild, on 06/05/2008, -10/+35There are holes in the ozone?
    • TGMD, on 06/05/2008, -24/+14Ozone layer back? Check
      Forests back? Check (Except those that are being burned for agricultural land, which we have little control over, maybe if we helped these developing nations industrialize we can stop it. But greens don't want us to do that, they want to keep these nations in the dark ages)
      Air full of chemicals? Air is the cleanest it's been in 100 years
      All particulate matter and other chemicals are down, only CO2 has gone up and that's rather inert to human health, just got that whole global warming thing to worry about with that.

      etc etc


      • Schmich, on 06/06/2008, -2/+11My mum works at UNEP and I can tell in developing countries things aren't as good as you put them.
      • LoveAndSeagulls, on 06/06/2008, -5/+7you can't list all the stuff we fixed and then downplay global warming. global warming is just as serious as those other issues, if not more serious.
      • StonedFetus, on 06/06/2008, -7/+4What sort of propaganda is this!?

        the forests are being eaten and burned by hot weather. lots of tree eating beetles and forest fires. half of the damn trees in our north west are dead.

        smog in cities is a new phenomena.

        dead trees produce CO2/ do not produce Oxygen.

        " !? "
      • Ravenhaft, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6Have you been to Los Angeles lately? In the early nineties smog was a HUGE problem, you sometimes couldn't see downtown LA through the haze. Californias legislature enacted tough emission standards and California has much cleaner air because of it.
      • DeathStrawberry, on 06/06/2008, -7/+7I agree with you. The girl's young, but her facts are pretty far off. If you understand the "holes in the ozone" thing, her statement about being afraid to go outside is nonsense. And I am one who is very skeptical of Al Gore's global warming hype, so I'm not really taken in by this girl's speech. I don't understand all the praises she's getting. I wasn't very impressed, because I've heard the same stuff before from other kids, though maybe not quite as young. It's interesting that she got to speak to the UN though.
        • heliox, on 06/06/2008, -2/+5As long as a 12 y/o girl says it, it must be true man. It must be!
    • jerryudigg, on 06/06/2008, -12/+7Of course! Don't you remember? that was the thing that was going to end the world before the climate. Hey wait, shouldn't the world be over? Could it be that lack of sunlight was causing those big hole and nothing man was doing? Sounds familiar......
      • Murdats, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2No because of all the fuss kicked up about it and a potential impending death restrictions were implemented world wide to stop the release of ozone depleting chemicals into the atmosphere.

        do you know what did stop it? people who denied it was happening doing nothing.
    • lukeev, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6We went to the Moon?!
  • Lagger, on 06/05/2008, -3/+208direct youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDliXzyAY
    • Neticule, on 06/06/2008, -0/+11Thanks, site went down as soon as it hit front page
    • lucutus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3Maybe it's the Highland park Scotch but, All I can think to say is "***** Awesome"
      • heliox, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1It's probably the crack you did after.
    • alexforcefive, on 06/06/2008, -0/+8I'm just posting this because I was trying to find a mirror and I couldn't because no-one on the page had used the word "mirror" yet. Don't digg me down, it's for the good of mankind!
  • bluevillage, on 06/05/2008, -11/+47Now here's the first woman president! (Though she's Canadian)
    • MrSlumberjack, on 06/06/2008, -0/+7I don't think she would even dream of being a politician.
    • Atex55, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4Man, Canada has all the good ones...
    • CarStan, on 06/06/2008, -1/+9Obama/Suzuki 08
  • pjpark, on 06/05/2008, -25/+16Poor girl. Eliminating safe and inexpensive refrigerants didn't fix the "ozone hole", so those politicians masquerading as scientists tried to distract us by squealing about "climate change". Don't be scared, little girl, we'll get that ozone hole fixed so you don't die of cancer before you are swept away by one of those giant global-warming induced hurricanes that Al Gore says is coming.
    • exomni, on 06/06/2008, -6/+5And the emissions continue to grow and the cancer rates and child asthma and pollution continues to rise... nope, no connection here. Anyone who would suggest that is just a "scare-tactic" using politicians "masquerading as scientists". Cancer is just part of a "natural cycle", and the coal in your lungs is harmless.
      • pjpark, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4Which is why life expectancy keeps declining:

        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10383942/
        • Murdats, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3just think how much higher it would be if you didnt spend all your time breathing in poisons.
        • pjpark, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3You mean those "poisons" that are a by-product of technological advancements and industry that have raised living standards so I can work less and live better than my forebears; revolutionized transportation so that food, medicines, and medical treatment are readily available; revolutionized chemistry so that farmland is more productive and I can kill all that little bugs and critters around here that spread diseases; revolutionized materials so I can keep my food fresher, longer; revolutionized communications so that I take cover when a tornado hits and can find out what the environmental crisis of the day is that will kill everyone -- in short, all those things that contribute to a longer life-expectancy -- how much longer would I live if I didn't spend all my time breathing in those "poisons"?
    • frisk415, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1Dude you kinda suck.
      • pjpark, on 06/07/2008, -0/+1Ok, I Dugg you up one. The sarcasm in my comment did not come out quite the way I intended. It's not my best material.
    • mike4444r, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2Wow Exomni, you believe Al Gore's propaganda and the lies of global warming? pjpark, you hit it right on the nose.
      • faatbuddha, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0What exactly did exomni say about global warming?
        Even if the current warming is natural, the cancer rate is not.
  • TGMD, on 06/05/2008, -48/+20Well... you can tell that she was brainwashed nice and early, full of fear and trying to instill it in others.
    • BlackSheep720, on 06/05/2008, -9/+23I'm more fearful of people like you than I am of issues like global warming.
      • TGMD, on 06/06/2008, -14/+9Why on Earth would you fear me or people like me?

        Does skepticism scare you? You need to get help.
        • furbyboy, on 06/06/2008, -7/+14It is not your scepticism that scares people, simply your ignorance!
        • TGMD, on 06/06/2008, -16/+9I'm sorry, but what am ignorant of?

          Am I ignorant because I called that girl brainwashed? She clearly is, she's too young to understand the subject herself, she's obviously been scared into her beliefs. How is that ignorant?

          Oh, I'm ignorant because I don't buy into the scare tactics?
          Come on, Who's the ignorant one here?

          And who mentioned global warming anyway?
        • BestJaxx, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3I'm willing to place money on the fact that TGMD here is a Christian. Don't tell me that you haven't bought into the scare tactics. You've probably bought into Heaven and Hell in fear, and let's assume that you aren't a Christian, I'll make fun of you for the simple fact that you are a complete ***** dumbass. You are denying that global warming is real? Are you kidding me? Your skepticism is *****, and no matter how much science proves that you are wrong, you still won't believe us until you can't open your front door, because of the water pressure on the other side. Your skepticism hold the human race back from expanding its knowledge. With people like you, we will all die, and leave behind a legacy of ignorance.
        • TGMD, on 06/06/2008, -1/+4Oh sorry again pal, I'm an atheist, and a rather liberal one at that.

          And I didn't even mention global warming!!!!!
        • lamiaconfitor, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1You are not a skeptic, you are an idiot.
    • exomni, on 06/06/2008, -8/+6David Suziki is a brilliant, amazing man, a better man than you could ever aspire to be, and he's raised a child who has accomplished more so far in her still young life than any of your potential children could ever dream of in a lifetime.

      ***** you.
      • alien006, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Wow, you're eloquent. And obviously Dadiv Suziki's brainwashed child has already accomplished more than any of this guy's children could possibly accomplish just because you don't like him.

        Enjoy your fish full of cancers.

        ***** you.
  • thirdeyeopen, on 06/06/2008, -14/+187wow, this actually really is older than the internet
    • wonkavsn, on 06/06/2008, -5/+15But the words remain true
    • 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).
    • exomni, on 06/06/2008, -9/+3Wow, actually it isn't.
      • alien006, on 06/06/2008, -0/+0Wow, you're still an idiot down here regardless the age of the internet.
    • mattmy, on 06/06/2008, -0/+2I would have to disagree with you.
  • TakeMyCrabs, on 06/06/2008, -22/+10Why is trying to save a species from extinction considered "good" (if it's of no use to humans)?
    • einrobstein, on 06/06/2008, -4/+13Because ecosystems are made up of countless interdependant species. Any disruption (IE extinction) could result in a collapse of said ecosystem.
      • brstilson, on 06/06/2008, -2/+499% of all the species that ever lived have gone extinct. Extinction is part of the natural order. One ecosystem collapses, another takes its place. Circle of life and all that noise.
        • Jaydo, on 06/06/2008, -2/+6Extinction doesn't overly occur due to the impact of another species, save us.

          Natural distasters and near-world ending events? Yeah, bring on the extinction...

          A bunch of pink bastards ***** it up for everyone else? Eh, I'd prefer not to be in that camp.


          Pollution, over-hunting and over-development is not part of the circle of life.
        • brstilson, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6"Pollution, over-hunting and over-development is not part of the circle of life."

          Says who? Why is it that us humans tend to think we're so high-and-mighty and above nature. We're PART of nature.
        • StonedFetus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1personally, i am excited for the nearing 'neo-dark age' .

          bring on the mass starvation, disease, war... its either that or a Utopian society.... which is as likely as communism being known by its actual definition. lol
        • pcote, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Call me fatalist but if 99% of all species that lived have gone extinct, we will eventually kill the only percent left... and one of those is called "humans".

          At least, it will give the planet a break.
    • tehbored, on 06/06/2008, -3/+9Because we may later find out that it is useful? Because we would feel guilty otherwise? Because sometimes you have to think of someone or something other than yourself?
      • KnifeOrSpoon, on 06/06/2008, -4/+8Like in that Star Trek movie where an alien vessel was looking for a whale, but they were extinct, so it prompted Kirk and his crew to travel back in time, to wear clothing of the era, to steal a pair of whales (i think) and then travel back to the future (GREAT SCOTT!!!!) and then save the world from complete and utter devastation (at the peril of huge tidal forces and monsoons apparently - cue the Al Gore rhetoric).

        Yes it is still as relevant now as when this speech was made, and also when the Star Trek movie (my previous paragraph depicted) was filmed
    • ileftfark, on 06/06/2008, -4/+20You're really not much use to me, so...
    • KyleGoetz, on 06/06/2008, -4/+5Ever heard of the butterfly effect? Kill off a mosquito species, you kill off a spider species, which kills off a frog species, which kills off a lizard species, which kills off a avian species, which kills off a mammalian species.Some other mammal loses out from that, up the food chain, and in all this, plants that need animals to pollinate go extinct.

      For example, if bees went extinct, humans would be royally *****.

      Also, there are species which might have cures/fixes for human ailments that we will never get to study.
    • novask, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5Because it will affect other species. The extinction of one species could cause the extinction of several others and it will just domino out from there in to a serious problem.
    • exomni, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Honestly, when I consider an animal going extinct the first thing I think of is definitely not how it might affect my own species.

      It's called ETHICS. Put down the Ayn Rand and get some common sense.
      • gutistg, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1As a moral relativist:

        Honestly, when I consider an animal going extinct the first thing I think of is how it might affect my own species (more specifically, me).

        It's called SELF PRESERVATION. Put down the Ayn Rand and get some logic.

        That said, I believe the solution to fixing the planet is to ***** things up to the point that humans become extinct. Just wait 'til after I'm either mostly robotic or my consciousness is contained in a computer.
    • Haecceity, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2Perhaps you are of no use to humans.
  • tehbored, on 06/06/2008, -4/+22Inspiring. Old, but still inspiring.
    • MrSlumberjack, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Why the 'but still'? Since when is old less inspiring than new?
    • EwMo, on 06/06/2008, -3/+2Old Butt
  • hansk, on 06/06/2008, -19/+8nothing i havent heard before
  • frenchi, on 06/06/2008, -14/+7Did you bring guns?
    You're not going to make a difference with guns.
    • SRCharvel, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1"did you bring any weapons?"
      "ofcourse not"
      "your not changing anything.."
  • c64plus4, on 06/06/2008, -19/+7Buried. It's always for the children.
  • MasterThief117, on 06/06/2008, -7/+16I don't care how old this video is. It is still relevant. It is true and it is important for the message to be heard. I think what she and the rest of her group did was very courageous. I just wish it actually did something.
  • scarz99, on 06/06/2008, -12/+4Care?
  • danryan, on 06/06/2008, -3/+30Narrator: and the U.N. un-nazied the world - forever.
    • antiflag89, on 06/06/2008, -14/+1um.... the u.n. was created after the allies defeated the Nazi's to try to keep something like that happening again!
      • gutistg, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4You don't need to shout it at us.
      • LivingMachine, on 06/06/2008, -2/+4danryan is citing a line from the movie, "Idiocracy" directed by Mike Judge.
    • jer2eydevil88, on 06/06/2008, -1/+7Dugg for the quote from Idiocracy

      For those who don't get it, its a Mike Judge movie released in 2006 that pretty much sums up the future.
  • Einchy, on 06/06/2008, -17/+7I'd hit it.
  • Gforce20, on 06/06/2008, -3/+12I don't usually watch videos this long, but this one really captivated me. I'm digging this no matter how old it is.
  • MasterThief117, on 06/06/2008, -9/+9And the more I think about it, this is old. Yes. But every single problem listed (minus the ozone) is still identical. They are still issues and are getting worse. The mass extinctions, the starvation, the greed, the war in the Middle East, etc. I cannot believe that after 16 years, these problems are not only left ignored, but are getting worse. Not only that, they are getting worse with the promises that they will be fixed. I doubt it will change. I believe that unless we as a species come together and TAKE ACTION, then nothing will change. No more speeches going on the deaf ears of the governments, no more complaining going ignored by sheeple. Take action. Go out and do something. For our future.
    • DeathStrawberry, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Nah. But can we sit around and talk about it on the internet? That makes me feel like I'm doing something without having to, you know, do something.
    • natey14, on 06/06/2008, -4/+2Dude honestly bro, are you that friggin retarded.

      Mass extinction: Does anybody care? All we need are chickens for eggs and cows for steak lol.
      Greed: Wtf dude it's greed. Everyone is greedy, once again always been there.
      Middle East: Eliminate the ***** terrorists and this problem will be solved.
      Starvation: Always been there.

      You can't eliminate these "problems".
      • notanidiot, on 06/06/2008, -1/+2Wow, thats really stupid. Good job.

        Does anyone care about mass extinction? Yep, I do. Some people don't eat chicken or beef or eggs, and many species support others' survival. Read a book.

        Greed? Not everyone is greedy, just because you are. Many people are generous, and want to try to help others. Therefore, you are wrong, again.

        Eliminate the terrorists? Yeah, there's a good idea. The more of them you kill, the more people get pissed at us, and become terrorists. Genocide then?

        Starvation has always been there. And so has all this extra food. But the technology to spread it around has just recently come about.

        Aaaaand, you're done. Enjoy your fail.
  • batmanz, on 06/06/2008, -1/+19There's a wikipedia article on her:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

  • zephalim, on 06/06/2008, -5/+5Absolutely amazing speech and dedication shown by Miss Suzuki. If nothing else... let those officials live with their own conscious.
  • gutterboy, on 06/06/2008, -13/+19Can I digg this twice?
  • 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!
    • TantrooM, on 06/06/2008, -2/+16Or sitting in your desk chair and bitching about the world in cyberspace.
    • xB4R7x, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Yeah... if you're fat and stupid.
    • jhonsun, on 06/06/2008, -0/+0If only the United States WOULD remove itself from the U.N.! Of course, the U.N. would shrivel up and die without all of our taxpayer money so I don't know what you're complaining about.
  • nitesoulja, on 06/06/2008, -20/+11SHES READING OFF A PAPER!!!! FUUUUCKKKKK SHE KILLED A ***** TREE
    • gutistg, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4She made it from her dead skin cells, sweat, and urine; then she wrote on it with a mixture of blood and feces.
    • nitesoulja, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3srsly if she really cared she wouldnt have gave the speech...like me, im on the computer all day!
  • Neticule, on 06/06/2008, -5/+6This was a very powerful video for me, I am so thankful there are at least some young folks that are willing to speak out like this.
  • Aerandir, on 06/06/2008, -12/+5Where's MrBabyMan and his incredible dupe Machine when you need it? Dugg this to the Moon!!
    No, shut up. Just Digg it Damn it!
    • icecoldtrashcan, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Who gives a crap about how old it is, or how many 'dupes' there are? This video is as relevant as it was in 1992, if not even more so, and it deserves to be given attention.
  • Fatcheeseguy, on 06/06/2008, -6/+10I'm in awe.
  • lucutus, on 06/06/2008, -7/+28***** Awesome. STFU about how old it is it's still true, hell even more true now.
  • sigafoo, on 06/06/2008, -3/+4The site seems to be down, i'm guessing this is a mirror?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q
    • purzzzell, on 06/06/2008, -2/+3no, that's a link to the same video on youtube :P
  • floridiot2, on 06/06/2008, -14/+13Apparently she doesn't understand human nature.
  • ultraJesus, on 06/06/2008, -15/+612 year old girl?



    United Nations?



    I'M GOING TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT!
  • jake86, on 06/06/2008, -1/+45Since when do adults listen to kids?
    • deinem, on 06/06/2008, -7/+3haha, when they get up on a podium and read a speech most likely written by an adult...
      • BestJaxx, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6Are you telling me that you doubt that she has the intellect required to write that? You need to see the other work that she did at that age.
      • sfacets, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3Maybe you are just used to your generation's education system...
    • BestJaxx, on 06/06/2008, -9/+4Take it from a 14 year old with an IQ of 143, adults will never listen to kids.
    • realstraw, on 06/07/2008, -0/+0They just pretend they are listening
  • atromos, on 06/06/2008, -6/+6okay she said something i found funny, but i completely agree with the purpose of the speech. anyways she said:

    You are what you do, not what you say. Well what you do makes me cry at night.

    lol^2.
    • DeathStrawberry, on 06/06/2008, -3/+3So she's a tree-hugger AND an emo kid. lol
    • deinem, on 06/06/2008, -0/+4haha

      Every time the UN ignores environmentally friendly policy...

      ...A child cries herself to sleep.
  • T8erT0T, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6The Frank Zappa stunt double at 5:47 looks incredibly bored.
  • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -14/+3UMMMMMMMMM shes not 12, shes 27.

    This was filmed in 1992, so all the OMG theres hope for the future posters, or kids are smarter today posters need to pay better attention next time.
    • sarixe, on 06/06/2008, -2/+8hey guess what! she was 12 in 1992. she gave the speech while she was 12 in 1992. i win, you lose.
      • JointVenture, on 06/06/2008, -7/+1Your reading comprehension is that of a 5 year old.
        • kotn2012, on 06/06/2008, -1/+6Anyone who starts their comments with "UMMMMM," can't comprehend anything, let alone reading.
        • lamiaconfitor, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1You should have quit a long time ago.
        • sarixe, on 06/08/2008, -1/+1reading has nothing to do with this. i listened to the speech, in which she clearly says "we're a bunch of twelve- and thirteen-year-olds". once again, i win, you lose.
  • 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.
    • natey14, on 06/06/2008, -7/+0Oh well, sucks for the trees and little animals.
    • jj101, on 06/06/2008, -2/+1Sucks for you and me too Einstein.
    • changyang1230, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1Because back then they had no youtube and digg.
  • tehxen3, on 06/06/2008, -17/+9Wow is this a joke? What a psychotic brainwashed drama whore. I'm disturbed by this child.
    • tenesmus, on 06/06/2008, -2/+7whew! I was thinking I was the only one.....
  • exomni, on 06/06/2008, -8/+12She's 28 or 29 now, by the way.
    • MrSlumberjack, on 06/06/2008, -1/+16*****, I though she was still 12.
    • Puffles, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1Why is he being dugg down for stating the truth?
      • lamiaconfitor, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6Because it is retarded. We can all read. We can all do math. It's like putting up a comment saying there was a video in the link.
    • chadillak, on 06/06/2008, -6/+328 or 29... and LEGAL!!
    • TheGooseyOne, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6OP is good at math
    • SpacePoet, on 06/06/2008, -0/+1She was born in '79. That would make you correct.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • Lprox5, on 06/06/2008, -7/+16Wow this is the first time I have ever seen this video and I have to say it's very moving and beautiful.
    • natey14, on 06/06/2008, -6/+2What a gay comment. Her daddy is probably a hippie.
  • redsoxmb545, on 06/06/2008, -5/+2That was amazing. 16 years old and still strongly relevant. While she seems to have little faith in much of humanity, seeing people like her gives me some hope and faith in humanity myself.

    KNOM SANG?
  • elstevo, on 06/06/2008, -4/+6Severn Suzuki? More like Debbie Downer...
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