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Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Cities Cleaner Countries Emissions Energy Energy Sources Global Global Warming Many Provinces Reduce Seriously Shift Sources States Taking Warming Well Working

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

~David Suzuki

Topics: Act Blamed Considerations Critical Economic Failure Global Global Warming Issue Leaders Often Warming World

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Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Bags Best Education Get Incentives May Necessary Outright People Plastic Solution Stop Them Using

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There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Appetite Because Earth Economy Global Global Economy Humans Like Mice More Most Numerous Planet Rabbits Rats Technology Than Us

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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Benefits Carbon Clean Conserve Economic Energy Energy Sources Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Implementing Measures Price Provide Putting Relatively Renewable Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Sources Shifting Simple Solutions Some Sources Taxes Through Would

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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.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Able Allow Attention Bodies Difficult Food Greater Heal Healthy Imbalance Keeping Lead Making Many Minds Must Obesity Our Pay Salt Should Sold Things Value Work

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Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Bad Bags Most Part Plastic Unnecessary

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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.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Above Ask Because Conditions Define Ecology Economy Elevated Finding First Instead Live Our Out Principles Priority Thought Within Would You

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Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible food and stable weather and climate? Surely the economy is the means to a better future, not an end in itself. Surely it must be subordinate to a rich, diverse ecosphere that sustains all life.

~David Suzuki

Topics: Air Better Better Future Climate Determined Diverse Does Economy End Extent Food Future How How Much Itself Life Means Much Must Our Over Place Response Rich Stable Subordinate Surely Sustains Value Water Weather

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It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

~David Suzuki

Topics: Any Around Concerns Day Everything Future Generation Give Give Me Grandchildren Grandpa Great Great Hope Helped Hope Love Me Might Movement Near One Day Part Satisfaction Say Stake Things Think Turn Will Would Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: March 24th, 1936

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