今から２１年ほど前に、１２歳の女の子が、リオデジャネイロで行われた地球サミットでのスピーチを聞きました。地球上に起きているいろいろな問題を、的確に、分かりやすく、また、情熱的でありながら冷静に発言していました。
子供の目線から物事を見ていて、ありのままの自分の気持ちを訴えているのだと思いました。彼女の言うことが全くその通りで、また、２１年経った今も現状はあまり変わっていないのが悲しく感じました。
彼女の言っていることは、実現不可能なことではなく、スピーチしている内容の全てが、人間の考え方を変えれば、さほど難しい問題ではなく、実現をすることが出来る内容です。
大人の目線から見ると、ほとんどが認識していて、分かっていることばかり、彼女が言うように、すぐにアクションを起こすことが大事なことだと感じます。
スピーチ内容（テキスト）
0:03the
0:06hello i’m severance isn’t he speaking for ako
0:09the environmental children’s organization
0:11where a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds trying to make a
0:15difference
0:16the necessary
0:18morgan guys learn michele craig
0:22we’ve raised all the money to come here ourselves
0:25to come five thousand miles to tell you adults you must change our ways
0:31coming up here today i’d have no hidden agenda
0:34and fighting for my future
0:37using my future is not like losing an election
0:41or a few points on the stock market
0:45i’m here to speak for all generations to come
0:49i’m here to speak to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world
0:54whose cries going to hurt
0:57i’m here to speak for the countless animals
0:59dying of classes planet
1:01because they have nowhere left to go
1:05i am afraid to go out in the sand now
1:08because of the holes in our ozone
1:11i’m afraid to be in the air
1:13because i don’t know what chemicals are in it
1:17i’d used to go live i_d_’s go fishing in vancouver myhome with my dad until just
1:23a few years ago we found the fish
1:25full of cancers
1:28and now we hear of animals and plants going extinct
1:32everyday banishing forever
1:36in my life
1:37i have dreamt and seeing the great herds of wild animals
1:41jungles and rainforests
1:43from birds and butterflies
1:45but now i wonder if they were even exist
1:48from my children to see
1:51did you have to worry of these things when you are my age
1:56all this is happening before our eyes and yet we act
1:59is if we have all the time we want and all the solutions
2:06i’m only child and i don’t have all the solutions
2:09but i feel i want you to realize neither do you
2:14you don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer
2:18you don’t know how to bring some the salmon back up in are dead stream
2:22you don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct
2:26and you can’t bring back
2:28the forests
2:29the whites group where there is now a desert
2:32if you don’t know how to fix it
2:35please
2:36stop breaking it
2:39here you may be delegates of your government
2:42businesspeople
2:43organizers reporters
2:45or politicians
2:46but really
2:48your mothers and fathers
2:50sisters and brothers
2:52aunts and uncles
2:54and all of you
2:55assignments child
2:59i’m only a child yet i know we are all part of the family
3:03five billion star
3:05in fact thirty million species job
3:08employees in governments will never change that
3:14i’m only child yet i know we are all in this together
3:17antique act is one single world
3:19towards one single goal
3:23in laying there and not blank any might fear
3:26and not afraid of telling the world how i feel
3:30in my country
3:31makes so much waste we buy and throw away
3:35by and throw away
3:37by a throwaway and yet northern countries will not share with the needy
3:41even when we have more than enough
3:43we’re afraid to share
3:45we are afraid
3:46teens that goal of some of our wealth
3:50in canada
3:51we had the privilege life
3:53with plenty of food
3:55and shelter
3:57we have a watches bicycles computers and television sets
4:00phyllis can go on for two days
4:03two days ago here in brazil
4:05we were shocked when we spend time with some children living on the streets
4:10this is what one child told us
4:13at which
4:14i was rich
4:16and if i were i would give all of the street children
4:20clothes
4:21medicines
4:22shelter
4:23and love and affection
4:26if a child on the streets who has nothing is willing to share
4:31why are we gonna have everything still so greedy
4:36i can’t stop thinking
4:38that these are children my own age that it makes the tremendous difference where
4:43you are born
4:46could be one of those children living in the fed bella’s of rio
4:50i could be a child starving in somalia
4:54victim of war
4:55in the middle east
4:57by a beggar
4:58in india
5:00i am only a child yet i know
5:03if all the money spent on war
5:05we spent on finding environmental answers
5:08ending poverty
5:10and finding treaties
5:11what a wonderful place this earth would be
5:15at school
5:17even in kindergarten
5:19he teaches how to behave in the world
5:22you teach us
5:24to not to fight with others
5:26to work in sap
5:28to respect others
5:30to clean up and that’s
5:32not to hurt other creatures
5:34to share
5:35not be greedy
5:37then why do you go out and do the at do the things you tell us not to do
5:42do not forget
5:44why you are attending these conferences
5:47rule you’re doing this for
5:49where your own children
5:53you are deciding what kind of a world we are going up there
5:57parents should be able to come for their children by saying
6:00everything’s going to be all right
6:02it’s not the end of the world’s
6:05and we’re doing the best we can
6:08but i don’t think you can say that to us anymore
6:11are we even on your list of priorities
6:15miceli says
6:17you are what you do
6:18not what you say
6:22what you do makes me cry at night
6:25you grown up saying love us
6:28but i challenge you please