The emotional testimony of Severn Suzuki, a Canadian thirteen year old girl, at the United Nations: then far-sighted words, now an urgent reality

Severn Suzuki

A thirteen year old girl, by the name of Severn Suzuki, and the spokesperson of an environmental group called ECO, spoke before representatives in the United Nations. Filmed more than fifteen years ago, her words still resonate with the fears we have today. The video speaks about the future. It underlines the fear of a future that could no longer exist, and what we should be fighting for to prevent this from happening. The price of our future, of the technological change, is in the resources that we consume in order to generate wealth. We must first think about the sometimes irreversible changes before we proceed. And if we are making our ecosystem pay too high of a price, we should ask ourselves if we need to slow down and think about alternative solutions.