David Suzuki Quotes - Page 4

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• We all live downstream

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  Nature, Environment, Natural Environment

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• If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

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  Priorities, Borders, Economy

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.142, Greystone Books

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• We have become a force of nature.

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  Force, Forces Of Nature

  David Suzuki (2010). “The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future”, p.17, Greystone Books Ltd

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

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  Responsibility, Reality, Social

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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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  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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• 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.

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  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

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  Economic, Currents, Flawed

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• From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

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  Years, Perspective, Environmental

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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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  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

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  Impact, Long, Atmosphere

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• Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

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  Nature, Government, Community

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• If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

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  Strong, America, People

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

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  Real, Blinders

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• More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

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  People, Water, Adequate

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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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  Healthy, Mind, Salt

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• Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

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  Economy, Currency, Biosphere

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• And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.

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  Oasis, Blue, Issues

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• Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

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  Technology, Environmental, Mammals

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• A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

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  Wise, Book, Tree

  David Suzuki, Wayne Grady (2007). “Tree: A Life Story”, p.9, Greystone Books Ltd

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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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  Moving, Impact, Water

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• There are some things in the world we can't change.

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  World, Biosphere, Can't Change

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• Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

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  Moving, Thinking, Land

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• I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

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  Respect, Future, Humility

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• We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

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  Addiction, Bags, Use

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

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  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

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