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" Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. "
David Suzuki
Now
Warning
Stop
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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. "
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" Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary. "
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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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" I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. "
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" Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. "
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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. "
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Money
Energy
" Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. "
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" Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. "
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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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Start
Play
Parents
" 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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Understanding
Work
" 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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High
Environment
Election
" 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. "
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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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Creativity
Memory
Future
" Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. "
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Economists
Price
Through
" I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? "
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I Am
Edge
Plants
" 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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Food
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" Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. "
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Water
Gas
" The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish. "
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" The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. "
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" Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards. "
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Knowledge
Experience
Future
" 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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" Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian. "
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People
" One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child. "
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" If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end. "
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Hope
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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.' "
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" 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. "
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