Impact on Youths

Severn Cullis-Suzuki has always encouraged youths to raise their voices on pressing environmental issues. After her speech at Rio 1992, Cullis-Suzuki learnt that there is huge power in the voice of young people and their voice contains honesty and clarity, which speaks the truth in a clear way. Adults will not be able to do it with as much emotional impact. Youths also have their whole life ahead of them, and they can fight for inter-generational justice because people are willing to hear from someone who has everything at stake. Cullis-Suzuki has inspired many youths to speak out and make a difference, and we will look at how she has done so in this section.