David Suzuki Quotes About Global Warming

Quotes about: Global Warming

• Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Too Late, Warning

• 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

• 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”

• Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

  David Suzuki

  Sea, Environmental, Rising

• Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills). Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary. Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species, in much greater numbers than wind power.

  David Suzuki

  Wind, Numbers, Car

  "Renewable energy requires strength of will" by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, www.straight.com. November 4, 2008.

• 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

• The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

  David Suzuki

  Issues, Leader, World

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.67, Greystone Books Ltd

• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

• 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.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Littles, Arguing

• Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Leader, Political

• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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