David Suzuki

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it. ”

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. ”

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. ”

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. ”