Famous Quotes By David Suzuki

 

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
4. Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
5. For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
12. In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
13. Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
14. Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
15. Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
16. 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?
17. The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
18. 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.
19. Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
20. We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
21. We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
22. We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.