David Suzuki Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  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

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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.

  David Suzuki

  Respect, Future, Humility

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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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• 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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• We all live downstream

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  Nature, Environment, Natural Environment

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

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  Vision, Events, Moments

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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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• We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

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  Chemicals, Scales, Planets

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• Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

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  Powerful, Long, Healthy

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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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