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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
Government Time Family Memories Interior Possessions Because Were Camp Childhood Childhood Memories Just Just Because Japan Us Grandparents Include
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.' David Suzuki
World Discipline Become Think Everybody Our Way See Seeing Environmentalism Environmentalist Make Make A Difference Difference Order Place Specialty Need
Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom. David Suzuki
About Environmentalist Gloom Doom Being
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases. David Suzuki
Responsibility Approach Corporate Cases Voluntary Failed Social Many Social Responsibility
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens. David Suzuki
Business Settle Favor Citizens Over May Often Interests Organizations Help Agreements Disputes Necessary Treaties
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. David Suzuki
Environmental Natural Problem Water Pressure Earth Earthquakes Release Worst High Shake Shatter Massive Chemicals Up Shooting Unexpected Natural Gas Sand Might Amount Things Gas
We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor. David Suzuki
Water Big Organic Added Enough Percent Dribble Weight Over Ball Just Away Floor
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. David Suzuki
Food Animal People Plant Own Every Our Once Earth Way Bit Those Alive Take Most Another Understand Mouths Apart Bodies Molecules Even Tear Creature Profound Incorporate
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
Seriously Energy States Cities Emissions Cleaner Taking Countries Global Global Warming Well Reduce Shift Sources Provinces Warming Energy Sources Working Many
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. David Suzuki
Political Those Systems Economic Invested Countries Protect Because Trade Often Agreements Differing Needed
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. David Suzuki
Government Too Much Delay Too Our Thoroughly Tell Has-Been Must Arbitration Reconsider Examined Give More Global Until Trade Understandable Deals Least Been Expand May Representatives Elected Much Mechanisms Inclusion Away Desire
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. David Suzuki
Environmental Protection Politicians Our Spend Say Environmental Protection Over Economy Hear Dollars Tax Tax Dollars Fragile
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. David Suzuki
Scale Physical Properties Part Untouched Altered Globe Chemical Geological Left Planet Biological
Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days. David Suzuki
People Mind Energy Our Top Feeding Days Many Appetite
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. David Suzuki
Needs Money Build Become Energy Live Meeting Out Possible Some Abroad More Argue Economy Make Priorities Selling Quickly Get Accustomed Oil As Much Money Which Short-Term Energy Needs Much Should Coal Ground Lives Gas Here
What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives? David Suzuki
Happy Healthy Live Our About Children Want Grandchildren Them Lives
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. David Suzuki
Nature People Key Parents Young Our Our Lives Kids Out Uncles Outside Aunts Families Role Getting Young People Grandparents Lives Play Start Need
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. David Suzuki
Health Water Drinking Drinking Water Toxic Massive Well Accidental Human Human Health Requires Amount Harm
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. David Suzuki
Water Other Resource Our Resources Most Precious Just Oil Including Waste Gas
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. David Suzuki
Knowledge Political Reflect Leaders Global Know Most Global Warming Always Real Political Leaders North American Warming Act Even
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again. David Suzuki
Government People Opportunity Plants Energy Immediately Those Running Percent Simply Instead Huge Up Huge Opportunity Get After Wants Again Japanese Japanese People Cut Use
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. David Suzuki
Balance People Think Back Corporate Way See Allowing True Come Economy Got Continue Lot Very Green Just Different Sustains Agenda Us Different Way Flourish
Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that. David Suzuki
God World Treat Will Values Creation Believe Our Way Out Shape Look Occupy Go Were Dominate Proceed Placed Exploit Then Us Beliefs Here
Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable. David Suzuki
You Reality Country Live Border Percent Vast Idea Do You Know Know Within Rock How How Much Lot Huge Huge Amount Snow Ice Land Us Much Why Amount
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. David Suzuki
Science Difficult Broadcaster Kind Find Some About Generally Badly Involved Scientists Subject Chicken Very Getting Controversial Being Want Urge Them Really Dispute Portrayed
Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all. David Suzuki
People Corporations Campaigns Funding
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