Nearly 30 years before angry 16-year-old girl Greta Thunberg “shamed” world leaders in a tearful tirade at The UN, a 12-year-old girl “silenced the world for five minutes”.
In 1992, Severn Cullis-Suzuki – then 12-year-old daughter of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, addressed the plenary session of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
In it, she described being “afraid to breathe the air” or go out in the sun, warned of mass extinctions of plants and animals and urged rich nations to stop spending so much money on war and “let go of some of our wealth”.
I just dug up this clip from 1992…Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s speech to the UN in 1992 on climate change sounds an awful lot like Greta Thunberg’s in 2019.
I cut the two together to show just how similar the language is: pic.twitter.com/18ptTzX4M4
— Caleb SkHull 💀🎃👻 (@CalebJHull) September 26, 2019
“We are a group of 12 and 13-year-olds trying to make a difference” .
“We’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves” , “to come 5000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways.”
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“Coming up here today I have no hidden agenda” .
“I am fighting for my future. Losing my future” “is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come.”
“I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard” .
“I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go.”
“I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the hole in our ozone” .
“I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it” .
“I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad, until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers” .
“And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct. Every day, vanishing forever” .
She looks happy and healthy to me. And she’s clearly not scared of going out in the sun. Has she made any amendments to her alarmist claims, now that she is an adult?
“In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies. But now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see” .
“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age?” .
Quick recap:
Severn Cullis-Suzuki told others what to do ever since she was 12, but as an adult, she doesn’t seem to be following what she’s preaching. Severn has two children, she is a meat eater, owns a car, and flies periodically. What do you call that?
You can watch her original speech below, or read the transcript here:
Reference: Zerohedge.com
