Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.
Severn
Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992
1.
What
organization does she speak for?
2.
What
is she fighting for?
3.
What
is she afraid of?
4.
Why
doesn’t she go fishing anymore?
5.
What
has she dreamt of?
6.
What
does she want the adults to realize?
7.
What
are the four different environmental problems she talks about?
8.
How
many people were there in the world at that time?
9.
How
many species does she mention?
10.
What
kind of bad habit from her country does she denounce?
11.
What
are we afraid of?
12.
Why
was she shocked when she arrived in Brazil?
13.
What
does she want the northern countries to do?
14.
What
are the main things she was taught at school?
15.
What
is the sentence her father keeps telling her?
