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...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 little 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 realise, neither do you!
o You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
o You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream.
o You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
o 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, organisers, reporters or politicians - but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and ... [continues »]

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It has been 14 years since this speech and things remain the same. Children keep dying by hunger while the fools keep talking about the same things, just about numbers.

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