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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.

David Suzuki

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David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
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Vancouver
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David Takayoshi Suzuki
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