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" Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. "

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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

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" Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. "

" 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. "

" Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly. "

" 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. "

" If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts. "

" Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. "

" 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. "

" We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. "

" 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. "

" Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions. "

" 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? "

" My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan. "

David Suzuki

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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? "

" 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. "

" It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority. "

" 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. "

" Geothermal can be a huge source of energy very quickly. "

" 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. "

" Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. "

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

" Environmentalism has failed. "

David Suzuki

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" Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. "

" People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way. "

" We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960. "

" Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous. "