I Am Just A Child But I Know...

From: Collage Foundation - Interview with Severn Cullis-Suzuki
"When I was young I formed ECO, the Environmental Children's Organization, because of an experience I had in the Amazon where I witnessed this incredible world and saw that it was being burned. I thought, "Someone has to do something about this!" So eventually we went to the World Summit in Rio. We went there to remind the delegates why they were there and ask them to do the right thing.

We got back, and ten years passed, and what do we really see from that summit? Well, I don't know that we've seen too much.

Over the last few years, after Rio, I was invited to many, many different conferences. Over time I've realized: this is not where we're going to see change. We've seen positive activism happening in the last ten years at the grassroots level, in small communities. It's about the individuals that make up the statistics about consumption and pollution, as well as the people who feel the negative impact, who are actually going to be the change."

Further Info:
Wiki - Severn Cullis-Suzuki