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The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce our energy use, while stimulating whole new industries and technologies that are more efficient and affordable.

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Technology, Years, People

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Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

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Winter, Years, Benefits

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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Country, Rights, Sri Lanka

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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

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Thinking, Order, Differences

"David Suzuki and his daughter, Severn, in town to talk of adventures and activism". The Star Interview, www.thestar.com. February 25, 2013.

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

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Change, Together We Can, Action

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Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

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Space, Needs, Landscape

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Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

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Shapes, Canada, Habit

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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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Uncles, Kids, Aunt

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

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Sea, Environmental, Rising

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

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Hours, Great Outdoors, Resilient

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Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

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Kyoto, Target, Achieve

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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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People, Friendly, Bags

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Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

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Bags, Unnecessary, Plastic

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Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

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Survival, Sms, World

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What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

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Children, Happy Life, Healthy

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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.

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Science, Small Numbers, Community

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But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

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Mean, Air, Water

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The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

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Memories, Creativity, Ideas

Canada.com Interview, April 23, 2007.

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Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

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Japan, Connections, Littles

David Suzuki (1987). “Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life”, Stoddart Pub

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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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Real, Littles, Arguing

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

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Real, Leader, Political

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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

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Lying, Boys, Keys

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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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Time, Priorities, Election

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Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.

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Moving, Environmental, Energy

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On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

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Japan, America, Democracy

David Suzuki (1987). “Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life”, Stoddart Pub

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