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A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.
David Suzuki
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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
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Climate Activist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
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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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Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.
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Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.
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The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.
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Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
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With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
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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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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 humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
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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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Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.
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The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'
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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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So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.
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There are some things in the world we can't change.
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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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Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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