While watching COP15 live on youtube I heard a brilliant speech by a youngster (not able get the correct name) of Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) from Philippines belonging to indigenous population (these are human beings who are closely connected to nature across the world -aborigines', tribes, native Americans so on not yet blindfolded from reality into fantastical fictions by religions or market and other dehumanizing systems). It was an amazing experience to listen to her. Unfortunately, she didn’t get the kind of acknowledgment nor appreciation that was expected. Today I thought of listening to her again -the simple lines articulated deep thought that had me riveted, but couldn’t get it online despite searching it for quite some time.
Her charming self-effacing speech was interspersed with these lyrical questions.
She concludes her speech with these lines
So dear delegates who are you as a
human being as a decision maker as a future ancestor? Are you really who need
to be? I urge you to be the leaders that we need you to be.