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You are what you do, not what you say.

David Suzuki

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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
Proactive

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Love is the force that makes us fully human.
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The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
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Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.
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One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
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Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.
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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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The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.
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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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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
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We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
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We all live downstream
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More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
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If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.
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You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
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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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Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
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The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
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We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?
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What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?
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