This is a speech performed by the great film maker and friend Velcrow Ripper. It speaks for itself: ~ Velcrow Ripper, January 29, 2011~ Opening speech at the Youth Media Summit, Saskatoon, Canada I'd like to offer you an invitation, an invocation, a wake up call. Wake up! It's time to come to our senses, and wake up! (Zen hand clap) Listen - can you hear the alarm bells ringing? Can you hear the cries of Mother Earth? Can you smell the stench of an industrial growth addicted civilization rotting from the inside out? Look - have you noticed the species going extinct minute by minute, the birds falling out of the air, the disappearing bees, the melting glaciers, the rising seas, the expanding deserts, the suffering skyrocketing out of control, the wars that never end,
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