David Suzuki Quotes

• Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

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• Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

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• All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

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• Although it’s difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

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• Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

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• Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

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• Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

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• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

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• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

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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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• 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.

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• We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

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• 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.

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• We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.

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• We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

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• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

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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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• It’s time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let’s not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

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David Suzuki (62)

Birth:	24th March, 1936
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Academic, Activist, Broadcaster

About

David Takayoshi Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001.

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