Name: Make your actions on climate reflect your words | Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T19:00:59.000Z
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(Video) Severn Cullis-Suzuki: I am here  to speak for all generations to come.

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world

I'm here to speak for the countless animals

(Video) SCS: I am afraid  to go out in the sun now

because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad,

SCS: A generation ago, I was that 12-year-old child.

to speak to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

My friends and I had started an environmental club,

and we'd traveled to this huge international meeting

to tell the adults they had to change their ways.

would issue the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

to tell us that humans and the natural world

Much like Greta Thunberg and her peers today,

we believed that decision-makers should be acting on science and facts.

that we were headed for ecological collapse.

(Video) SCS: All this is happening  before our eyes,

and yet we act as if we have all the time we want

SCS: Back then, climate change had been identified,

climate change is no longer a prediction.

It is here, and it happened far faster than even the experts predicted.

Today the work that we must do is about mitigation,

to limit the planet's warming to one and a half degrees Celsius,

as beyond that would pose too great a threat to human life.

we will have to cut our global emissions by half in the next 10 years.

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child  and I don't have all the solutions,

but I want you to realize neither do you.

SCS: Young people are always at the frontlines of any revolution.

Why didn't the delegates actually listen?"

I think that the delegates of the conference actually did listen,

but to the thousands of voices calling for change.

If you look at the declarations, the documents that came out of Rio,

They include the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change

greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere

and prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

Twenty-three years before the Paris Agreement,

154 countries signed this legally binding international agreement.

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child, yet I know we are all in this together

and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

SCS: So, why didn't the world take action?

Instead, governments focused on growing the economy,

and of course, winning the next election.

where our political systems make it impossible

to act in long-term interests for the people and future generations.

We have the Paris Agreement to limit the Earth's warming.

We have youth and social justice demands.

We have the science, we have the solutions

and we all are experiencing climate change.

(Video) SCS: If you don't know  how to fix it,

SCS: How do we ensure that this time we act on our words?

History has shown us that in moments of crisis,

in times of economic collapse and in times of disease.

We've seen governments and institutions across all sectors

Humans like to think that we're in control of everything,

that the laws of nature are the true bottom line.

We've been reminded that science and expertise are crucial to our survival.

and revealed our prejudiced infrastructures.

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