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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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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
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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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But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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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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What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.
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Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.
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For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
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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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Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.
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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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All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.
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There are some things in the world we can't change.
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Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.
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