Confirming the importance of COP27 that takes place between November 7 and 18 in Egypt, the work commented by Alex Nogués aims to save its truth and inspire new generations
In line with the 27th UN Climate Change Conference, COP 27, which will be held in Egypt from 7 to 18 November 2022, Publisher Pingo de Luz throw the book “For All Generations to Come: Severn Cullis-Suzuki“, how the speech given by the young woman who silenced the world when facing world leaders gathered during the Earth Summit (Eco-92) in a conference held in Rio de Janeiro with the aim of promoting sustainable development and environmental protection:
“I am fighting for my future, losing the future is not the same as losing the election or a few points in the stock market.
I am just a girl, but I know that we are part of a family, a family of five billion people; a family, in fact, of thirty million species, and borders and governments can never change that. I am just a girl, but I know that we are all in the same boat and must act as one world, for one purpose.
I’m just a girl, but I know that if all the money spent on wars was used to seek socio-environmental solutions, end poverty and make deals, the Earth would be a wonderful place !“
Thirty years later, Alex Nogués’ commentary and Ana Suarez’s illustrations amplify his emotional speech, showing that it resonates more current and urgent than ever:
Let’s think about a forest. Destroying a forest that took hundreds of years to grow means depriving future generations of the experiences it can offer; it means denying them the air it cleans, the water it preserves, their shade, their landscape, their paths, their fruit, their firewood… it’s upside down it’s justifiable. (…) The decision to cut down a forest should not be taken without first weighing the consequences of its disappearance, for a period of, for example, three hundred years.
Nature is us. It is not just our home, a beautiful landscape, or our source of resources and entertainment; we are nature. We exist thanks to (and within) a great, ancient chain of balances that has overcome thousands of unpredictable events.
History repeats itself: twenty-seven years later, Greta Thunberg, a girl, almost an adult, sits in front of the parliament of Sweden, her country, for three weeks and then every Friday, in protest of the government’s inaction yours. the face of what is the greatest disaster of all that man is, unfortunately, responsible for: climate change. His activism gave birth to the Friday for the Future movement, made up of young people from all over the world fighting for the future.
It the book is a call and is meant to inspire the new generations so they can come together and believe that more than hope, they hold the power to change the world. We adults must remember that children are children everywhere; they have hopes, dreams… they have rights! And one of these rights is to live in a healthy environment.
Work calls us to small actions that can create big changes:
“Focus your energy on protecting the forests that still exist around you. May the river that runs through your city flow clean and mighty. Fight your own for the ground you tread on. Turn your garden, your yard, your porch into a flowery hope. Think globally and act locally!”
Data sheet
Book: “For All Generations to Come: Severn Cullis-Suzuki”
Publisher: Pingo de Luz
Comments: Alex Nogues
Illustrations: Ana Suarez
Translation: Andrea Doréa
Design and editing: Larissa Kouzmin Korovaeff
ISBN 978-65-996475-7-4
1st edition
Rio de Janeiro, 2022
64 p.
Children’s literature, environment, speeches
Page: www.editorapingodeluz.com.br
Instagram: @editorapingodeluz
speech connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaQCEAr6Hk
