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Related: About this forumDavid Suzuki: Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model
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from Democracy Now! :
As the Rio+20 Earth Summit the largest U.N. conference ever ends in disappointment, were joined by the leading Canadian scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. As host of the long-running CBC program, "The Nature of Things," seen in more than 40 countries, Suzuki has helped educate millions about the rich biodiversity of the planet and the threats it faces from human-driven global warming. In 1990 he co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation which focuses on sustainable ecology and in 2009, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Suzuki joins us from the summit in Rio de Janeiro to talk about the climate crisis, the student protests in Quebec, his childhood growing up in an internment camp, and his daughter Severns historic speech at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 when she was 12 years-old. "If we dont see that we are utterly embedded in the natural world and dependent on Mother Nature for our very well-being and survival ... then our priorities will continue to be driven by man-made constructs like national borders, economies, corporations, markets," Suzuki says. "Those are all human created things. They shouldnt dominate the way we live. It should be the biosphere, and the leaders in that should be indigenous people who still have that sense that the earth is truly our mother, that it gives birth to us. You dont treat your mother the way we treat the planet or the biosphere today."
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/25/david_suzuki_on_rio_20_green
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David Suzuki: Why Planet’s Survival Requires Undoing Its Economic Model (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2012
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Suzuki's been clear on this for a while. Good OP. Thanks, marmar for the videos, too.
freshwest
Jun 2012
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tabatha
(18,795 posts)1. I have been waiting for someone credible to say this.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. Suzuki's been clear on this for a while. Good OP. Thanks, marmar for the videos, too.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)3. The elephant in the room. And yet who will hear this?
People like us for whom this isn't news. That's who.
Let's face it: Outside of Canada, you have to be of a certain mind set to even know who David Suzuki is.
Civilization2
(649 posts)4. This is REQUIRED viewing!!!!
Every human animal needs to watch this and understand these ideas,. David is a great speaker, a passionate and wise man, who sees the big picture and it is not political, economic, or corporate, it is biological. We are embedded in interlocked biological systems we are a part of nature, and we can not survive if we ALL do not accept and understand what this means. Bravo for posting this, and for those that made it possible.
David Suzuki is brilliant ... I'm glad to see these.