1.05.2006
Severn Cullis-Suziki
"I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realize neither do you...if you don't now how to fix it then please stop breaking it."
These were the words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suziki to the delegates at the First Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, at the tender age of 12. At age 9 she had already formed ECO, Environmental Children's Orginazation with six elementary school friends and has been on the move ever since. Her wikipedia bio reads as follows:
These were the words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suziki to the delegates at the First Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, at the tender age of 12. At age 9 she had already formed ECO, Environmental Children's Orginazation with six elementary school friends and has been on the move ever since. Her wikipedia bio reads as follows:
Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a young environmental activist, speaker, television host, and author. Born in 1979 to Canadian geneticist and famed environmental activist David Suzuki, she attended Yale and has spoken on environmental issues around the world, often speaking on the necessity of defining our values, acting with the future in mind, and on individual responsibility, especially regarding encouraging young people to speak out for their future.Read an interview with her or visit her Skyfish Project.
In 1992, at the age of 12, Severn raised money together with some schoolmates to attend the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, where she made a speech in front of the delegation. At the end of her speech, she received a standing ovation.
In the spring of 2002, Severn spearheaded an Internet-based think-tank called The Skyfish Project. She is a member of Kofi Annan’s Special Advisory Panel, and as such she and members of the Skyfish Project brought their first project, a pledge called the Recognition of Responsibility to the recent UN World Summit in Johannesburg in August 2002. She hosted a number of television programs, including Suzuki's Nature Quest, a children's television series airing around the world in 2002, and published a book with Doubleday called "Tell The World."
