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Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental Children's organization.
We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money to come here ourselves to come five thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming 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 market. 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 the 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 the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day - vanishing forever.
In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.Did you have to worry about 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, neither do you!
You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians - but really you are mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles - and all of you are somebody's child.
I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong - 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.
In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel.
In my country, we make so much waste, we 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 some of our wealth. In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter - we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.
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 children are my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you were born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India. I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers,ending poverty,fiding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be!
At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us:
do not fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, 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're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for - we are your own children.
You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying "everything's going to be alright', "it's not the end of the world" and "we're 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 father 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.
こんにちは、セヴァン・スズキです。エコを代表してお話しします。
エコというのは、エンヴァイロンメンタル・チルドレンズ・オーガナイゼーションの略です。
カナダの12歳から13歳の子どもたちの集まりで、今の世界を変えるためにがんばっています。 あなたがた大人たちにも、ぜひ生き方をかえていただくようお願いするために、 自分たちで費用をためて、 カナダからブラジルまで1万キロの旅をして来ました。
今日の私の話には、ウラもオモテもありません。
なぜって、私が環境運動をしているのは、私自身の未来のため。 自分の未来を失うことは、選挙で負けたり、 株で損したりするのとはわけがちがうんですから。
私がここに立って話をしているのは、未来に生きる子どもたちのためです。
世界中の飢えに苦しむ子どもたちのためです。
そして、もう行くところもなく、死に絶えようとしている無数の動物たちのためです。
太陽のもとにでるのが、私はこわい。オゾン層に穴があいたから。呼吸をすることさえこわい。 空気にどんな毒が入っているかもしれないから。父とよくバンクーバーで釣りをしたものです。 数年前に、体中ガンでおかされた魚に出会うまで。
そして今、動物や植物たちが毎日のように絶滅していくのを、私たちは耳にします。
それらは、もう永遠にもどってはこないんです。
私の世代には、夢があります。
いつか野生の動物たちの群れや、たくさんの鳥や蝶が舞うジャングルを見ることです。 でも、私の子どもたちの世代は、もうそんな夢をもつこともできなくなるのではないか？ あなたがたは、私ぐらいのとしの時に、そんなことを心配したことがありますか。 こんな大変なことが、ものすごいいきおいで起こっているのに、私たち人間ときたら、 まるでまだまだ余裕があるようなのんきな顔をしています。
まだ子どもの私には、この危機を救うのに何をしたらいいのかはっきりわかりません。
でも、あなたがた大人にも知ってほしいんです。あなたがたもよい解決法なんてもっていないっていうことを。
オゾン層にあいた穴をどうやってふさぐのか、あなたは知らないでしょう。
死んだ川にどうやってサケを呼びもどすのか、あなたは知らないでしょう。 絶滅した動物をどうやって生きかえらせるのか、あなたは知らないでしょう。 そして、今や砂漠となってしまった場所に どうやって森をよみがえらせるのかあなたは知らないでしょう。 どうやって直すのかわからないものを、壊しつづけるのはもうやめてください。
ここでは、あなたがたは政府とか企業とか団体とかの代表でしょう。
あるいは、報道関係者か政治家かもしれない。
でもほんとうは、あなたがたもだれかの母親であり、父親であり、姉妹であり、兄弟であり、 おばであり、おじなんです。そしてあなたがたのだれもが、だれかの子どもなんです。 私はまだ子どもですが、ここにいる私たちみんなが同じ大きな家族の一員であることを知っています。 そうです50億以上の人間からなる大家族。いいえ、実は3千万種類の生物からなる大家族です。 国境や各国の政府がどんなに私たちを分けへだてようとしても、このことは変えようがありません。
私は子どもですが、みんながこの大家族の一員であり、
ひとつの目標に向けて心をひとつにして行動しなければならないことを知っています。 私は怒っています。でも、自分を見失ってはいません。 私は恐い。でも、自分の気持ちを世界中に伝えることを、私は恐れません。
私の国でのむだ使いはたいへんなものです。
買っては捨て、また買っては捨てています。 それでも物を浪費しつづける北の国々は、南の国々と富を分かちあおうとはしません。 物がありあまっているのに、私たちは自分の富を、そのほんの少しでも手ばなすのがこわいんです。 カナダの私たちは十分な食物と水と住まいを持つめぐまれた生活をしています。 時計、自転車、コンピューター、テレビ、私たちの持っているものを数えあげたら何日もかかることでしょう。
2日前ここブラジルで、家のないストリートチルドレンと出会い、
私たちはショックを受けました。ひとりの子どもが私たちにこう言いました。 「ぼくが金持ちだったらなぁ。もしそうなら、家のない子すべてに、 食べ物と、着る物と、薬と、住む場所と、やさしさと愛情をあげるのに。」
家もなにもないひとりの子どもが、分かちあうことを考えているというのに、
すべてを持っている私たちがこんなに欲が深いのは、いったいどうしてなんでしょう。 これらのめぐまれない子どもたちが、私と同じぐらいの年だということが、私の頭をはなれません。
どこに生れついたかによって、こんなにも人生がちがってしまう。
私がリオの貧民窟に住む子どものひとりだったかもしれないんです。ソマリアの飢えた子どもだったかも、 中東の戦争で犠牲になるか、インドでこじきをしてたかもしれないんです。
もし戦争のために使われているお金をぜんぶ、
貧しさと環境問題を解決するために使えばこの地球はすばらしい星になるでしょう。 私はまだ子どもだけどこのことを知っています。
学校で、いや、幼稚園でさえ、あなたがた大人は私たちに、世のなかでどうふるまうかを教えてくれます。
たとえば、
ならばなぜ、あなたがたは、私たちにするなということをしているんですか。
なぜあなたがたがこうした会議に出席しているのか、どうか忘れないでください。
そしていったい誰のためにやっているのか。それはあなたがたの子ども、つまり私たちのためです。 あなたがたはこうした会議で、私たちがどんな世界に育ち生きていくのかを決めているんです。 親たちはよく「だいじょうぶ。すべてうまくいくよ」といって子供たちをなぐさめるものです。
あるいは、「できるだけのことはしてるから」とか、「この世の終わりじゃあるまいし」とか。
しかし大人たちはもうこんななぐさめの言葉さえ使うことができなくなっているようです。 おききしますが、私たち子どもの未来を真剣に考えたことがありますか。
父はいつも私に不言実行、つまり、なにをいうかではなく、
なにをするかでその人の値うちが決まる、といいます。 しかしあなたがた大人がやっていることのせいで、私たちは泣いています。 あなたがたはいつも私たちを愛しているといいます。しかし、私はいわせてもらいたい。 もしそのことばが本当なら、どうか、本当だということを行動でしめしてください。
最後まで私の話をきいてくださってありがとうございました。
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Commencement Address at Wellesley College
Thank you very, very much, President Keohane. Mrs. Gorbachev, Trustees, faculty, parents, and I should say, Julia Porter, class president, and certainly my new best friend, Christine Bicknell -- and, of course, the Class of 1990. I am really thrilled to be here today, and very excited, as I know all of you must be, that Mrs. Gorbachev could join us.
These -- These are exciting times. They're exciting in Washington, and I have really looked forward to coming to Wellesley. I thought it was going to be fun. I never dreamt it would be this much fun. So, thank you for that.
More than ten years ago, when I was invited here to talk about our experiences in the People's Republic of China, I was struck by both the natural beauty of your campus and the spirit of this place.
Wellesley, you see, is not just a place but an idea -- an experiment in excellence in which diversity is not just tolerated, but is embraced. The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by a student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon the game called "Giants, Wizards, and Dwarfs." "You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are -- a giant, a wizard, or a dwarf?" At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?" And the pastor tells her there are no mermaids. And she says, "Oh yes there are -- they are. I am a mermaid."
Now this little girl knew what she was, and she was not about to give up on either her identity, or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. "Where do the mermaids stand? All of those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and the pigeonholes?" "Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "And you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world." As that very wise young woman said, "Diversity, like anything worth having, requires effort -- effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity, and to accept unconditionally the same in others.
You should all be very proud that this is the Wellesley spirit. Now I know your first choice today was Alice Walker -- guess how I know! -- known for The Color Purple. Instead you got me -- known for the color of my hair. Alice Walker's book has a special resonance here. At Wellesley, each class is known by a special color. For four years the Class of '90 has worn the color purple. Today you meet on Severance Green to say goodbye to all of that, to begin a new and a very personal journey, to search for your own true colors.
In the world that awaits you, beyond the shores of Waban -- Lake Waban, no one can say what your true colors will be. But this I do know: You have a first class education from a first class school. And so you need not, probably cannot, live a "paint-by-numbers" life. Decisions are not irrevocable. Choices do come back. And as you set off from Wellesley, I hope that many of you will consider making three very special choices.
The first is to believe in something larger than yourself, to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time. I chose literacy because I honestly believe that if more people could read, write, and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that plague our nation and our society.
And early on I made another choice, which I hope you'll make as well. Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you're talking about life -- and life really must have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
One of the reasons I made the most important decision of my life, to marry George Bush, is because he made me laugh. It's true, sometimes we've laughed through our tears, but that shared laughter has been one of our strongest bonds. Find the joy in life, because as Ferris Bueller said on his day off, "Life moves pretty fast; and ya don't stop and look around once in a while, ya gonna miss it."
(I'm not going to tell George ya clapped more for Ferris than ya clapped for George.)
The third choice that must not be missed is to cherish your human connections: your relationships with family and friends. For several years, you've had impressed upon you the importance to your career of dedication and hard work. And, of course, that's true. But as important as your obligations as a doctor, a lawyer, a business leader will be, you are a human being first. And those human connections --- with spouses, with children, with friends -- are the most important investments you will ever make.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.
We are in a transitional period right now -- We are in a transitional period right now, fascinating and exhilarating times, learning to adjust to changes and the choices we, men and women, are facing. As an example, I remember what a friend said, on hearing her husband complain to his buddies that he had to babysit. Quickly setting him straight, my friend told her husband that when it's your own kids, it's not called babysitting.
Now maybe we should adjust faster; maybe we should adjust slower. But whatever the era twenty -- whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, and you must hug your children, and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
For over fifty years, it was said that the winner of Wellesley's annual hoop race would be the first to get married. Now they say, the winner will be the first to become a C.E.O. Both -- Both of those stereotypes show too little tolerance for those who want to know where the mermaids stand. So -- So I want to offer a new legend: the winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream -- not society's dreams -- her own personal dream.
And who -- Who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse -- and I wish him well.
Well, the controversy ends here. But our conversation is only beginning. And a worthwhile conversation it has been. So as you leave Wellesley today, take with you deep thanks for the courtesy and the honor you have shared with Mrs. Gorbachev and with me.
Thank you. God bless you. And may your future be worthy of your dreams.
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