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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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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
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Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
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