roots.

In 1992, at the age of 12, Japanese-Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Along with group members Michelle Quigg, Vanessa Suttie, and Morgan Geisler, Cullis-Suzuki presented environmental issues from a youth perspective at the summit, where she was applauded for a speech to the delegates.








This young lady is now in her thirties. She is almost exactly ten years older than I am. im nearly twenty and I find it nauseating to realize that I can agree with this girl eighteen years later. Now I'm rolling around the idea in my head that if I ever have a child, and when I show them this speech, they will be able to relate the same way we do. Is there some arbitrary turning we have had along the way that made us worse off than we could be today?




here is a quote from Suzuki's book that has a more positive outlook on the potential of this generation:

"There are … so many amazing things happening right now…..

I’ve met a couple of people lately who have a very interesting attitude. They [said], “How lucky are we? How exciting is this time? How lucky are we to be alive when the forces of good and evil are just so clear, when we’re undergoing such a massive time of shift and when our actions really, really matter, for good or for bad?”

This is a really unique period in history and it’s a time when an individual can have more impact than ever before in our human history because of the Internet, because of communication, because of how easily we can travel. … We really have to realize how empowered we can be, how much we actually matter."






^^These are prints from 2006, all in New York City while I was at Parson's University (The New School).