"Can you imagine how that made me feel?" Raffi asked. "I was not sure how I would be able to sing again."
Raffi then shifted his songs to call for "a radical change of heart and mind" and tell listeners that "the world needs a stronger vision to carry into the year 2000."
As part of that vision, Raffi has become an environmental activist as well as a singer with a message.
He acknowledged there was a tension between his upbeat songs and his assessment of the world's problems.
At yesterday's speech, Raffi focused on "sustainability," or preserving the world so "future generations [can] live at least just as well [as this generation]."
"The scale of industrial pollutants has changed the chemical makeup of the world," he said. "All her children are born at risk. The persistent pollutants that are found even in breast milk present a challenge to children and therefore to all of humanity."
As another element of helping children, he encouraged the audience to pay attention to children's formative years, saying this could "help stem soul erosion among our youth."
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