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Bildung trifft Entwicklung - WinD - Weltwärts in Deutschland. Zugvögel e.V., Süd-Nord-Austausch - Start. At Rio+20, Severn Cullis-Suzuki Revisits Historic '92 Speech, Fights for Next Generation's Survival. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We continue with the largest U.N. summit ever. Juan? JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We continue our coverage of Rio+20 Earth Summit by turning now to an amazing speech given 20 years ago at the 1992 U.N.

Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI: Hello. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone. All this is happening before our eyes, and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians.

I’m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong—in fact, 30 million species strong. In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw and away. SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI: Or Harper. Welcome to Google Docs. Startseite.