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世界各国で起こっている様々な「環境問題」。語学センターでは動画や写真を通して環境活動を行っているYuki　Kokubo先生によるミニ講座“The　Environment“（全8回）を企画しました。幼少期に米国に移住したBilingualのYuki先生はシカゴでArtの学位をとり現在フォトジャーナリストとして世界を舞台に活躍しております。そんなYuki先生の撮影した貴重な”Iceberg”の写真をご紹介します！




きれい！な写真ですが、環境問題がテーマとなると“Melting Glaciers“の問題とか気になりますよね。　　
「英語で学ぼうシリーズ」、Yuki先生の　”The Environment”　ご興味ある方、詳細はこちらで確認できます

http://okilc.ti-da.net/e10105921.html

さて、環境活動といえば、1992年に国連環境サミット＠リオで12歳の少女、セヴァン・スズキが行った「伝説のスピーチ」をまず思い出します。
カナダ生まれ（1979年）の日系人、セヴァン・スズキは環境活動家で、９歳で環境ＮＧＯを立ち上げ、１２歳の時、ブラジルで行われた「地球サミット」に自分たちで旅費を集めて初参加しました。その時に彼女が行った６分間のスピーチは、「伝説のスピーチ」として世界中に広まりました。セヴァン・スズキによる英語のフルスピーチをまだちゃんと聞いたことがない。。。という方は一度英語の勉強のつもりチャレンジしてみませんか。　まずはつぎの英語字幕版を聞いてみてください。


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17Tc1IwWuQ

日本語の意味をちょっと確認したい方はこちらー＞https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GsScywvx0



最後に、スピーチの原稿読んでみたい方は以下の引用からどうぞ


（以下スピーチ引用）
Address to the Plenary Session, Earth Summit, Rio Centro, Brazil 1992

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

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 exinct 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 butterfilies, 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 realise, 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 breaking it!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or poiticians - 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 htrow 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 everyting 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 "everyting'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. AUNre 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.


12歳の少女が「大人」であるはずの私たちに向けて投げかけたPowerfulな問いかけは、多くの大人たちの心を揺さぶりました。。。。あれから25年経ちましたが、世界はどう変わったのでしょう？

環境問題の最前線を英語で勉強してみたい！という方、活動家Yuki先生の“The　Environment”で一歩前に踏み出してみましょう

語学センターのミニ講座、”The Environment”は年明けにスタート。　Day One (1/15)のトピックはClimate Change(気候変動）です！

まずはナショジオの動画で予習してみませんか？　Please check this out-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok8rMT2KCy0