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from News.com.au,
It was 1992 and Severn Cullis-Suzuki, daughter of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, was addressing the plenary session of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Severn, now 39, is still a prominent environmental activist, speaker, TV host and author. In 2017, she and her friends from ECO marked the 25th anniversary of their Rio trip by encouraging young people to film their own take on “I’m only a child, but …”
She now describes climate change as the “ultimate example of an intergenerational crime” and supports Greta, whose School Strike For Climate has gone from a lone protest outside Swedish parliament to a global youth movement in the space of a year.
“My heart is so full,” she wrote in an Instagram post celebrating last Friday’s marches. “The youth are showing the world how to take action. Demanding transformation now. Human change not climate change.”
You can find Severn's full speech here.
