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どうやって直すのか　わからないものを
　　　　　　　　　こわし続けるのは　もう辞めてください。

１５年以上前の しかも１２歳の少女の言葉です。 現在に置き換えても遜色無いばかりか それは益々 真実味を帯びているとも思われます。 昨日　資料探してたら 昔 買った本が出てきて 思わず読み返してみました。 貧困や家族・友達の話など いろいろ語られています. 彼女のスピーチだけ 抜粋して挙げておきます。

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まだ子どもの私には　この危機を救うのに
何をしたらいいのか　はっきりわかりません。

でも　あなたがた大人にも知ってほしいんです。

あなたがたも　よい解決法なんて　もっていないっていうことを。

オゾン層にあいた穴をどうやってふさぐのか　あなたは知らないでしょう。

死んだ川にどうやってサケを呼びもどすのか　あなたは知らないでしょう。

絶滅した動物をどうやって生きかえらせるのか　あなたは知らないでしょう。

そして　今や砂漠となってしまった場所に
どうやって森をよみがえらせるのかあなたは知らないでしょう・・・。

学校で　いや　幼稚園でさえ　あなたがた大人は私たちに
世のなかでどうふるまうかを教えてくれます。たとえば・・

◇争いをしないこと
◇話しあいで解決すること
◇他人を尊重すること
◇ちらかしたら自分でかたずけること
◇ほかの生き物をむやみに傷つけないこと
◇分かちあうこと
◇そして欲ばらないこと

ならばなぜ　あなたがたは
私たちにするなということをしているんですか。　



↓原文は下記

Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental
Children's　organization.

We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a
difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised
all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you
must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am
fighting for my future.

Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock
market. I am here to speak for all generations to come.

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose
cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across
this planet because they have nowhere left to go. We cannot afford to be not
heard.

I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am
afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just a few years ago we
found the fish full of cancers. And 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
realize, neither do you!

You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how
to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an
animal now extinct. 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
breakingit!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers,
reporters or politicians - but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers
and sister, aunts and uncles - and all of you are somebody's child.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion
strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air,
water and soil - borders and governments will never change that.

I'm only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should act as
one single world towards one single goal. In my anger, I am not blind, and
in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel.

In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw
away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we
have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to　share.

In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and
shelter - we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.

Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with
some children living on the streets. And this is what one child told us: "I　wish I was
rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food,clothes,
medicine,
shelter and love and affection."

If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we
who have everything still so greedy? I can't stop thinking that these
children are my age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are
born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I　could
be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or　a
beggar in India.

I'm only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on
ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place
this earth would be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You　teach
us:

・not to fight with others,
・to work things out,
・to respect others,
・to clean up our mess,
・not to hurt other creatures
・to share - not be greedy

Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this
for - we are your own children.

You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be
able to comfort their children by saying "everything's going to be alright',
"we're doing the best we can" and "it's not the end of the world".

But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list
of priorities? My father always says "You are what you do, not what you
say."

Well, what you do makes me cry at night. you grown ups say you love us. I
challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words.

Thank you for listening.

　

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