David Suzuki Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• 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

  God, Spiritual, Time

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

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Wall, Car

  "Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

• We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Upset, Atmosphere

• 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 scientists.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Small Numbers, Community

• 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.

  David Suzuki

  Energy, Climate, Cost

• Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

  David Suzuki

  Change, Together We Can, Action

• More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

  David Suzuki

  Civilization, Global Warming, Climate Change

  Anita Gordon, David T. Suzuki (1992). “It's a Matter of Survival”

• Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

  David Suzuki

  Challenges, Humanity, Global Warming

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.244, Greystone Books

• 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.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Loss, Fire

  David Suzuki, Holly Dressel (2009). “From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis”, p.328, Greystone Books Ltd

• 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

  Home, Ecosystems, People

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