Somehow, it’s more meaningful – it resonates more – when children speak up about our mistakes. This, a video of the speech given by then-12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki, daughter of environmentalist David Suzuki, to the UN Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is a good example of that. My suspicion is that the true power of youth is the ability to hold those in charge accountable for their deeds with an innocence that no adult possesses, the ability to force adults to defend their actions to their dependents rather than their peers.

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