{"id":1049226,"date":"2019-08-11T01:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T05:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1049226"},"modified":"2019-08-11T01:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T05:06:57","slug":"sziget-jane-goodall-inspires-festival-goers-to-change-with-impressive-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/sziget-jane-goodall-inspires-festival-goers-to-change-with-impressive-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Sziget: Jane Goodall Inspires Festival-Goers to Change with Impressive Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Sziget Festival\u2019s main message, \u2018Love Revolution\u2019 is about environmental consciousness and sustainable development. In this spirit, renowned primatologist, environmentalist, and UN Messenger of Peace Jane Goodall\u00a0held<\/a>\u00a0a short but positive and inspiring lecture for the \u201cSzitizens\u201d about her life, motivation and hopes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goodall entered the stage right after legendary Franz Ferdinand finished their concert; although she noted that people were here primarily for the music, it was exciting to observe that hardly anyone left the area after the British band had said goodbye to the festival.<\/p>\n

Organisers gave her only a mere 10 minutes, which apparently wasn\u2019t enough for her to go into details, or to reveal something previously unknown but proved to be enough to make big impression and a change in view, which, hopefully, will result in better decisions regarding the world that surrounds us and living creatures.<\/p>\n

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Jane Goodall, aged 85, is considered to be the world\u2019s foremost researcher of chimpanzees. Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Stylishly, she started off by imitating a chimpanzee greeting. First, she talked about her childhood memories, about the origins of her fondness of animals and Africa. How she had been observing chimpanzees\u2019 behaviour through sixty years, how she realized that their behaviour resembles men\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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The (chimpanzee) males compete for dominance, swaggering, looking big and strong, reminding me very much of many human, male politicians today\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also told, how her dog taught her that not only human beings have mind, personality, and emotions, despite what some \u201cscientist\u201d said. When she first had to face climate change and that chimpanzees\u2019 habitat was in danger, she realized that without the improvement of local people\u2019s life, animal protection is unimaginable too.<\/p>\n

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Jane Goodall at the Sziget Festival. Photo by Zolt\u00e1n Balog\/MTI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps, the most interesting and encouraging part was when she spoke about how she sees the future. She expressed her hope that the younger generations will understand problems, take action, and together change the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We can save the world, if we get together; we will save the world if we get together\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

she concluded.<\/p>\n

You can see her lecture in its entirety below (her speech starts at 8:20 min):<\/p>\n