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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
Downstream
Environment
Nature
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As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
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Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.
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More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
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Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
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Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.
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In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted everything is recycled.
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
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If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
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The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
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Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.
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Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.
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There are some things in the world we can't change.
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Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.
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Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
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Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
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We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
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Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
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