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Powerful Speech by 12 Year old Girl

Started by Lauren McCullough on June 16, 2010
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Lauren McCullough said #1 Jun 16, 2010 at 8:24am

12-year old Severn Suzuki gave a speech to the Plenary Session at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio Centro, Brazil.


Her message to the grown ups:


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


Did the world listen?



This video gave me chills.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0



This is an interview from last year


http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/961/we_need_to_win/

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Melissa said #2 Jun 16, 2010 at 8:56am

How inspiring! Thanks for sharing Lauren!


- Melissa http://www.greenbeansandyam.com/


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