She may have lost some of the important points of the message along the way through lack of the skills of delivery, but I have rarely been more moved.
Yes it's another videolink from YouTube - but fuckin' Watch it! Far from being the hippy you might assume me to be I appreciate this at face value and not for any beliefs I have, for frankly, I have only three or four beliefs in the whole of reality.
This girl has, despite her few oratorical failings (and for a 12 year old speaking to a UN convention of international strong-armers they are magnificently handled) and the triteness of her speech in places, you and I and everyone else would do better in every way by listening to, and remembering this remarkable speech:
I would have loved to have been able to do this, from the facts of her situation, and sheer raw bravery, at her age.
chrisistoofat
Indeed, most impressive performance from one so young.
With regard to the wide-ranging, sober message, I fear that it will fall on the deaf ears of those who 'represent the people' as they are mostly too busy accumulating personal wealth and with conspicuous consumption to make any real global changes. It thus falls to each of US to do OUR own bit to delay what, ultimately, I fear to be the inevitable.
On the rare occasions when representatives of certain religious groups knock on my door and ask me 'who do you think will inherit the earth ?' I usually reply 'the insects'. This normally shuts them up (with confusion) but I happen to believe it.
However, I do hope I am proved wrong.
CITF