Quote

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

David Suzuki

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Suzuki
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 24
Biologist
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Professor
Science Writer
Writer
Zoologist
Vancouver
British Columbia
David Takayoshi Suzuki
Meetings
Achieve
Makes
Dent
Even
Kyoto
Targets
Barely
Target
Meeting

More quotes by David Suzuki

Image
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
David Suzuki
Image
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
David Suzuki
Image
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
David Suzuki
Image
Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.
David Suzuki
Image
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
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.
David Suzuki
Image
All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.
David Suzuki
Image
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
David Suzuki
Image
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
David Suzuki
Image
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change skeptics or deniers, these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientis
David Suzuki
Image
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted everything is recycled.
David Suzuki
Image
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
David Suzuki
Image
Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!
David Suzuki
Image
The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.
David Suzuki