一个12岁女孩感动联合国的演讲

震撼,一个12岁女孩在联合国大会的演讲

“Hello, I am Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O - the Environmental Children?s Organization. We are a group of 12 and 13 year-olds trying to make a difference, Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We?ve raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5,000 miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. 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 marke t.”

大家好，我是珊文.铃木，代表儿童环境保护组织团体（E.C.O.；Environmental Children’s Organization）发言。我们是一个十三四岁的小群体，我们想改变些什么：Vanessa，Morgan, Michelle和我。我们自己筹钱，旅行了五千英里来这儿。只为告诉你们大人，你们必须改变你们的生活方式。今天我来这儿，我背后没有任何经纪人，我们为我们的未来而战。失去未来并不象落选选举或者股市浮动那么简单。

“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 holes 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 a fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals and plants going extinct every day, vanishing forever. In my life, I have dreamed of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rain forests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”

我来这儿是为了将来所有世代而演讲。我演讲是为了世界上所有饥饿的儿童，而他们的哭泣，却无人听见。我代表行星地球上无数正在垂死的动物讲话，因为他们无处容身了。我现在不敢出去晒太阳，因为臭氧层有破洞。我现在害怕呼吸空气，因为我不知道里面有什么化学成分。我曾经和爸爸经常一起在Vancouver钓鱼，但几年前我们发现鱼身体里面到处是癌症。现在每天我们都能听到动物或植物绝种，永远消失的事情。我一生的梦想就是看见成群的野生动物，丛林和雨林中到处是鸟类和蝴蝶飞舞，但是现在我想知道我的孩子还能不能看到它们。

“Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I?m only a child and I don?t have all the solutions, but I want you to realize, neit her do you. You don?t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don?t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don?t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can?t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now a desert. If you don?t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.”

在您那个年代您担心我现在担心的事情吗？所有这一切就发生在我们的眼前，然而我们还是一直向自然索取我们需要的。可是我们却假装我们。我只是个小孩，我不知道该怎么办？但是我想让您认识到，你们也没有办法！你们不知道怎么修补大气的臭氧空洞。你也不知道如何从死亡河流中拯救三文鱼，你们更不知道如何让灭绝的动物复苏，你们也不能把沙漠中从前好好的森林带回来。如果你不知道如何拯救，那么请您停止破坏吧！

“Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians. But, really, you?re mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles and all of you are someone?s child. I?m only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. 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.”

在这里，你们也许是各自国家的代表、商业人士、组织者、记者或者政治家，但你们也是父亲和母亲，兄弟和姐妹，叔叔和阿姨——而且，你们所有人都是你们父母的小孩。我只是一个小孩，可是我却知道我们都是一个大家庭的成员，这个家庭有五十亿人，三千万个物种的大家庭，我们共享着同样的空气、水和土壤。政界和国界永远也改变不了这个事实。我身为小孩都知道，我们在地球母亲怀中都是孩子，我们应该为了相同的目标而进行相同的行动。

“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 away and yet Northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share, we are

afraid to let go of some of our wealth. In Canada , we live the privileged life. We?ve plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for 2 days. Two days ago here in Brazil , we were shocked when we spent time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, …I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection?. If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can?t stop thinking that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born. And that I could be one of those children living in the favelas of Rio . I could be a child starving in Somalia , or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India . I am only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers ending poverty and in finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.”

我很生气，但我很清楚。我很担心，但我敢于告诉全世界我的真实的感受。在我的祖国，我们制造如此多的垃圾，我们购买，我们丢弃，买和扔，然而北方的国家，却不会分享给哪些需要的人。甚至当我们拥有的远远超过所需要的的时候，我们还是怕会失去财富，不愿与人分享。在加拿大我们过着特权般的生活，我们有很多食物、房子和水，我们拥有手表，单车，电脑和电视机，在巴西，我们被两天前见到的东西震惊了，当时我们和一些当地街道的小孩在玩，这是其中一个小孩说的“我希望我能富裕起来，我会给这个街道所有小孩饭吃的，给他们衣穿，医疗，住房和爱。”如果当一个小孩当他没有的时候都愿意分享，为什么拥有一切的我们却如此贪婪？我不能忘记这些和我同龄的小孩，当他出生的时候，他和我们真的很不相同，我也可能是生活在RIO的贫民窟，也有可能是饿着肚子的Somalia的小孩，也可能是中东战争的牺牲品或者印度的小乞丐。我只是一个小孩，可是我却知道如果所有花在战争上的钱都花在寻找环境问题答案上来，花在借宿贫穷和找到解决方案上来，那么地球将是多么美好的地方啊！

“At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others and to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for. We are your own children. You are deciding what kind of a world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfo rt their children by saying …Everything is going to be all right, it?s not the

end of the world, and we are doing the best we can?. But I don?t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says, …You are what you do, not what you say?. Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown-ups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.”

在学校，甚至是在幼儿园，你们就教我们如何处事。你们教我们不要打架，要谦让，要尊重别人，找出答案，不要去伤害其他生命。，要分享，而不是贪婪。那你们大人为什么却在做着与你们教导我们的相反的事情呢？不要忘了你们为什么来参加这些会议，为谁来参加——我们是你们的孩子。你们在决定着我们在什么样的世界里成长。父母在安慰孩子的时候会告诉他们说："一切都会好的”，“那不是世界末日"。“我们正在尽我们所能”但是我认为你们再也对我们那么讲了。孩子们是你们的优选名单吗？我爸爸总是说："你所做的事才代表了你，而不是你所说的话。"然而你们所做的事情，让我在夜晚哭泣。你们大人说你们爱我们，但是我不同意你们所说，。我恳请你们，言行一致，知行合一。谢谢。

珊文·古立斯.铃木（Severn Cullis-Suzuki）的父亲是世界知名的加拿大遗传学家与环保人士戴维·铃木博士（Dr. David Suzuki），热心致力于环保工作并且成效卓著，曾荣获「全球优秀领导奖」。珊文·古立斯.铃木是世界上最杰出的青年环保斗士之一，从年少时起，她就藉由发表演讲、主持电视节目与写作，以倡导环保，并力促大众建立价值观、所作所为都要想到未来，以及负起个人应尽的责任。

1992年当珊文·铃木12岁时，她自己筹钱到巴西的里约热内卢，在联合国的地球峰会上，她做了5分钟的发言。

一开始大家觉得这只是漫长会议中的另一场发言而已，随着她大声说出的每一句话，会场开始变得非常安静。坐在听众席上的高官、重要人物、各国领导、科学家们，有的表情尴尬，有的似乎被什么击中，有的开始擦眼泪。还有更多的人，他们低下了头，好象不知道该怎么和这个小孩对视。

一年后，她在中国北京获得联合国环境规划署颁发的“全球五百精英荣誉奖”（Global 500 Roll of Honor Award）。

2002年她主持数个电视节目，其中包括在探索频道（Discovery Channel）播出的“铃木自然探索节目”（Suzuki’s Nature Quest）。她和朋友于2002年在约翰内斯堡的联合国世界高峰会议上，发表“承担责任”（Recognition of Responsibility）的誓言，表达北美人民关怀环境的心声。