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What do you think of Severn?

From the lens Severn Suzuki - a famous environmental video: where is she now?.

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  • flinnie Jun 2, 2012 @ 3:49 pm | delete
    Hi I like what she stand for, glad to get to know her, thank for the info.
  • CorkFlooringTips Apr 28, 2012 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    Wow great lens what a fantastic lady.
  • TheTravelGal Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:21 pm | delete
    Its wonderful to see how the passion she had as a 12year old, has not died out, but on the contrary has matured and developed. She speaks beautifully, with passion, not fanaticism.
  • Bronno Zwiers Apr 23, 2012 @ 9:00 am | delete
    I love her speech,I wish all the women in the world were like her they could make the world bloom and they could get rid of the war lords..Love Bron..
  • Tolovaj Apr 20, 2012 @ 6:29 pm | delete
    Never heard of her before. She looks very determined and full of inspiration. If there is more people like here this planet still have a chance.
  • thatgrrl Apr 20, 2012 @ 4:38 pm | delete
    I don't remember her at 12. She was doing her own TV show last time I saw her talking about animals and such.
  • Hugh jarse Apr 1, 2012 @ 5:16 am | delete
    The average north american spends his day planning to stab his boss in the back to gain prestige and affluence and power. He doesn't give a shit about the environment or the future. This is a losing battle. Give it up and let the human race comes to its natural demise
  • jimmyworldstar Jan 25, 2012 @ 5:18 pm | delete
    It's great that she is an activist and puts her heart in practice. A lot of people only recycle or buy green products, which isn't bad. But they are mainly consumers rather than spreading awareness or funding projects that would conserve or clean up places that need it.
  • Fodil BENSEFIA Jan 24, 2012 @ 8:25 am | delete
    Severn is a prophet who has come to save the planet from destruction!
  • Graceonline Jan 17, 2012 @ 12:47 pm | delete
    Every time I see Severn Suzuki's 1992 speech, I am wowed all over again. Thank you so much for sharing these other videos and interviews. What an inspiration she is! I especially appreciate her comment, "Inspiration is much more motivating than guilt," and look forward to finding ways to be inspired--and, hopefully, to inspire--more. Blessed
  • AE Hill Dec 9, 2011 @ 1:03 am | delete
    First and foremost, Severn is inspiring. For that, she is a winner. I am a person who typically considers diametrically opposed ideas. In Severn’s case, I perceive via her message that her passion blinds her to the realities that bind us to the rut leading us to our doom. Sure she sees the rut, but what are the forces that maintain that rut? The point becomes what can be done about the rut, not where the rut is headed. The world is chasing a dream that is becoming an extinction event. Few real decision makers can give up their personal wealth or power in exchange for a dream. I agree they should, but just as the USA failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, so goes the world down a rut we do not control [yet]. We must change our value systems. Wealth must be redefined.
  • michlene Nov 28, 2011 @ 5:18 pm | delete
    i think she awesome, its to bad ppl who are passionate and compassionate like her are rare in this day and age....
  • pepsharada Nov 21, 2011 @ 12:55 am | delete
    it has been very helpful that all details of Severn Suzuki are here. I was searching in the web and found your lens. It really a handy lens who all are searching for her details. thanks for a helpful contribution.
  • Richard Owl Mirror Nov 9, 2011 @ 8:05 pm | delete
    Does anyone know how I may contact Severn Suzuki?
    I have a serious proposal which I believe she alone might be able to bring to fruition.
  • Gabi Jan 4, 2012 @ 10:07 am | delete
    Hi, she is on facebook, shouldn't be difficult to contact her ;-)
  • Kmanahan at Yahoo Mar 11, 2012 @ 5:45 pm | delete
    Did you ever reach her. I was and I still am worried about our planet and it's future. I was awoken by her speech to the UN when she was 12. I would like to see what I could do to help this country. Did you have any luck?
  • Richard Owl Mirror Nov 7, 2011 @ 1:29 am | delete
    An incredible Leader, which our planet sorely needs at this time in our history.
  • Andrew Waites Aug 12, 2011 @ 9:01 am | delete
    I think it's great to see that Severn Cullis-Suzuki is following the path that she talked about as a 12yr old at an UN summit in Rio De Janiero, environmentalist have their hearts in the right place, but the richest 1% who makes more than and controls 95% of the world's wealth is too greedy and power hungry to help out in protecting and perserving vital natural resources or care to provide food and medicine for poor children and adults in impoverished countries. It's sad that our global home is slowly being ruined as resources & plant and animal species are being devoured or consumed at and alarming rate. Only God (Jehovah) can straighten out the un-ending problems that plague man and the environment. There is a future, but everyone has to learn how to change, but more importantly be WILLING to change for the better!
  • Lori Jan 21, 2012 @ 8:28 pm | delete
    Amen to your words, Andrew! It is always so refreshing to see people truly concerned about the condition of the world today. I hope that Severn Cullis-Suzuki will be able to enjoy all the changes that the world will experience in the near future. Thanks to our God, Jehovah.
  • daria369 Aug 11, 2011 @ 2:11 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens. Blessed! :)
  • promotional-coupons-codes Jun 17, 2011 @ 12:50 am | delete
    This is first time I'm reading about Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Thanks for sharing.
  • Battl3mania Jun 14, 2011 @ 12:04 am | delete
    Severn Cullis-Suzuki. You're so young back then, today your a capable grownups. Do you still remember visit the kids back then in Brazil and help make their wishes came true? Are you sharing your wealth today as you wishes others do back then?
  • grafixforacause Jun 8, 2011 @ 10:44 am | delete
    Following int he footsteps of her father I hope! She's got some pretty big shoes to fill!
  • GetFactsnotHype Mar 16, 2011 @ 7:43 am | delete
    Oh one more thing ... Thanks for your comment on my hydrofracking-and-updates lens. I also appreciate the feedback about maybe including HOW one can clean their water after it's been polluted through this hydrofracking process.

    Problem is ... well water that has been contaminated through this process can not be cleaned. These victims have tried using a filtration system with reverse osmosis, yet the glycol ethers eat away at the membrane of the filtration system AND glycol ethers cannot be filtered out.

    However I had already thought that I might include info about this - EVEN though it cannot be done, but just so the audience reading knows that is cannot be done - that's what makes this horrific.
  • GetFactsnotHype Mar 12, 2011 @ 12:41 am | delete
    I added this lens to my lens under the Featured Lenses on the sidebar widget, seen at environmentally-green which I just spent hours re-vamping to make it better.
  • juan francisco Mar 1, 2011 @ 10:54 pm | delete
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  • JAMES KINGSLEY MURRAY Feb 23, 2011 @ 8:28 pm | delete
    I LOVE YOU SEVERN!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR SO SMART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR BETTER THAN ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Elena Lebedeva-Hooft Nov 24, 2010 @ 4:52 am | delete
    Great speech of 1992 and great look-up "what happened afterwards". Actually perceive the shift to ethno-botany more as a disappointment that pure activism can hardly change that EU bureacratic world... Will write a note for my Russian blog readers if you don't mind.

    BTW - something goes wrong with comments via Twitter & FB.
  • JziE Nov 17, 2010 @ 6:35 pm | delete
    good luck on your journey to make the world a better place :)
  • atis100 Oct 23, 2010 @ 7:47 am | delete
    speech in the age of 12 years so inspired me to stay to protect the environment, but the most is not her speech, the most important is how realization, which until now has not materialized in my opinion
  • KathyMcGraw Oct 6, 2010 @ 1:28 pm | delete
    This was very interesting...and I really hope that our world leaders do indeed" stop breaking what they cannot fix!" Blessed by an Angel :)
  • VJYoung Aug 13, 2010 @ 12:50 am | delete
    We at EnviroCorps are very appreciative of the support squidoo supporters are giving us.
  • Robert C. , Montreal, Canada Aug 4, 2010 @ 1:55 pm | delete
    Watching her video at the UN at age of 12 brought tears to my eyes, very inspiring and touching, she touched my soul. Thank you Severn for your bravery and openness and for sharing with us all. Bless you. Keep up the great work.
  • Prakash , India, prakashpgopinath@gmail.com Jul 12, 2010 @ 9:16 pm | delete
    i adore her for the work she had done
    would like to know what she is doing now
  • Angel N. H. May 17, 2010 @ 1:49 pm | delete
    I love her with passion, I admire her. I'd like everyone in the world could be like her in lots of aspects. And I also would like to share my life with a woman like Severn.
  • D. M. S. Ariyarathne Dec 18, 2009 @ 2:50 am | delete
    Hi Severn Suzuki.
    I heard your amazing speech at the UN. And one of my friends published it in a news paper here in Sri Lanka, in my native language, Sinhala. Seeing it a group of school children have responded it. The most important thing is they are in Grade 05 in school (about 10 years old). I'm translating their comments into English on your speech to send you these days. And I'll send them you as soon as possible.
    I wish you all strength to continue the good work for the sake of our planet's betterment.
    Best regards
    D. M. S. Ariyarathne
    from Sri Lanka
  • aj2008 Oct 29, 2009 @ 8:41 am | delete
    This is a very interesting lens and I like the "where is she now" theme and that she is still campaigning for the environment.

    SquidAngel Blessings for you!
  • CherylK Sep 28, 2009 @ 9:59 pm | delete
    I think she is a remarkable young woman. That speech should be sent thoughout the world, even today. Especially today. Lensrolling and favoriting this great lens, of course!
  • kimmanleyort Sep 13, 2009 @ 3:37 pm | delete
    Wonderful to see a lens about Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Am lensrolling to my Earth Charter lens. Her speech at age 12 was at the Rio Summit, out of which the Earth Charter was born.
  • saludo al mundo Sep 8, 2009 @ 10:43 am | delete
    muy bueno
    tomemos conciencia..pronto..un gran abrazo.........
  • Didi Ananda Anudhyaná Aug 15, 2009 @ 10:05 am | delete
    Her speech at the time in ECO '92 in Rio (age 12, 2009 she is going 30) continues to inspire even today...it's message continues... and the image of a bold young girl with a heart and mind for the earth is what I'd like to see more young people do for our planet. For me, it's what you do that counts. Every little effort is never lost. It helps builds the energy field and momentum to push the changes that needs to be done as we evolve ourselves and our localities. We learn by doing, one step at a time.
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Apr 25, 2009 @ 7:52 pm | delete
    Lovely. Thanks for the introduction.

    Lensrolled to my Earth DisneyNature Films CAN Help Save Planet Earth monkeybrains lens and my Ban Paper Coffee Cups lenses.

    Blessed.
  • RinchenChodron Feb 22, 2009 @ 1:26 pm | delete
    I think she is wonderful - thank you for this excellent lens. Please come and join
  • AdrienneJenkins Feb 7, 2009 @ 6:57 am | delete
    I'm from the Pacific Northwest and was surprised to see a lens written about David Suzuki's daughter. Great job.
  • spirituality Jan 20, 2009 @ 1:29 am | in reply to FreddyBenstein | delete
    There is a link to the text of that speech right above the video of the speech. But here's the link again: text of Severn Suzuki's famous UN speech
  • FreddyBenstein Jan 20, 2009 @ 12:24 am | delete
    I wish I could find the text of that speech.
  • naturegirl7 Oct 23, 2008 @ 2:07 pm | delete
    Thanks for this wonderful lens about a young activist. We need more young people like this. Thanks for joining the Naturally Native Squids group. Don't forget to add your lens links to the appropriate plexos and vote for them.
  • EverythingMouse Oct 17, 2008 @ 2:25 pm | delete
    Wow. What an amazing person. It was good to hear about what she is doing now too. Blessings to you
  • mulberry Sep 24, 2008 @ 3:24 pm | delete
    Amazing. I can't imagine having the composure she had at age 12 in front of the UN. Very interesting lens.
  • TeaLady Sep 24, 2008 @ 4:25 am | delete
    Thanks for putting all this info together.
  • GypsyOwl Sep 22, 2008 @ 10:11 am | delete
    I have loved Severn ever since I saw the vid of her speach when she was 12. She taught me some very valuable lessons about taking action on your beliefs even when it might be out of your comfort zone. When a 12 year old is a mentor to a women my age you have to think seriously about the wisdom of children and the newest generation seems to have been able to keep the wisdom they were born with longer than previous generations.

    Thank you for bringing the story of Severn more current. I am still amazed at her strength, dedication, and wisdom.

    Absolutely my fav lens of the day 5*

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