an earth to inherit

This speech,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Sb6RmRMbBY

by a 12-year-old girl to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, is something I've waited a long time to see: children demanding that us living adults pass down to them a habitable globe in which to have a future. Her articulateness, and forthright insistence upon inter-generational responsibility, opens the door to a movement. And, as we have just seen the end of the first-ever campaign for President by a woman , this girl's achievement, of giving voice before an eminent audience to the rightful demand of her generation, is especially poignant.