The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes
We haven’t posted in awhile. There is so much being posted in the social networks, and it’s being pushed, fed, emailed everywhere. However, we came across this video by a young girl from Canada who sums up everything, and sends a stunningly sensible, and also alarming, message to the world by a delivering a 5 minute commentary in front of the UN.
She manages to cover it all. Everything we teach our children (that is good), seems to be what adults can’t get through their heads. For adults who propose to be working on solutions, it’s clear they aren’t doing a good job, and most likely have more self interest in it than the sense of urgency needed to leave a better world for the next generation.
She’s right, we’re “fixing, fixing” but we don’t seem to get what’s broken, if it’s broken enough, we don’t care enough, don’t get organized enough, and probably, for all our talk, our meetings, reports, and billions and trillions(?) spent, don’t know how to fix it. The will to get it right, as this young lady has, is missing in our world leadership. And it’s critically important, imperative, that we get it right – now. It’s not good enough to have report after report of vanishing species, spreading illness, continuing war, conflict, starvation, disease. There seems to be more hunger for reports and discussion than hunger to actually get the job done.
As she points out, we have to see ourselves as all one people, which we are obviously having a difficult time doing. And we don’t see the absolute necessity of sharing, of spreading the wealth that is available. We are hoarders – of time, wealth, self importance, and solutions.
Please listen take 5 minutes to listen to this message, and then pass it along.
The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes