Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher

When we take a moment from our busy lives to consider the kind of world we may have in twenty, forty or sixty years from now - our thoughts must turn to our children. What will they grapple with if we allow our industrial world to continue on its present path?

Here are a few clips of children with something to say:

Severen Suzuki, aged 12 Speech at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, June 1992

 

Angry Kid

 

Kate Reciting Gore's Climate speech from mountaintop

 

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models. - James Baldwin (1924-87) US writer