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• Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

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  Believe, Looks, World

  "David Suzuki on Rio+20, “Green Economy” & Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 25, 2012.

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.” But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

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  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

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  World, Guests, Firsts

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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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  Hurt, Energy, Packaging

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• Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

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  Gmos, Impact, Guiding Principles

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• You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

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  Priorities, Principles, Would Be

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• My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.

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  Hard Work, Mean, Dna

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• 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.

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  Life, Upset, Atmosphere

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• Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

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  Thinking, Who I Am, Events

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• Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

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  Years, Environmental, Progress

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• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

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  Heart, Successful, Technology

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• If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

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  Distance, Mean, One Day

  "The Beauty of Wind Farms". www.newscientist.com. April 13, 2005.

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• 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.

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  Home, Ecosystems, People

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• 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.

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  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.

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  People, Important, Groups

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• The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

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  Weather, Climate, Events

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• Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

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  Running, Opportunity, Energy

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• Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.

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  Fukushima, Imagine, Situation

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

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  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

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• A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

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  Mother, Baby, Nursing

  David Suzuki (1995). “Time to Change”, Stoddart Pub

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• With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

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  Technology, Impact, Negative

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• People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

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  Power, Thinking, People

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• Love is the force that makes us fully human.

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  Love Is, Force, Humans

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• Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

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  Carbon Cycle, Water, Upset

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• Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

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  Priorities, Should, Biosphere

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