David Suzuki on our economy and environment, part 1 of 6
Renowned Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki speaks about the environment, the economy, climate change and our future. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, in Vancouver, BC.
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My friend–I am very well trained in the scientific approach; however, you have one very telling weak factor in all of this…the human greed factor. Dr. Suzuki is not an environmental scientist–he is a geneticist. He is speaking and earning huge fees which he consistently refuses to reveal. If your belief in the infallible method of science was true, scientists would never disagree with each other–obviously not true!
Science is all about disagreeing. There is testing the hypothesis and scientific debate.
Weather Suzukis’s words are true or false has got nothing to do with the money he makes. Science can make an airplane that you would trust to fly in. Why don’t you trust the same science when it tells you about GW.
Oh my, it is not the same science! You cannot compare Bernoulli’s principal that can easily be demonstrated in a lab to the complexity of earth’s atmosphere. I don’t mean to insult; but, did you really do science for a living?
(By-the-way, Suzuki’s motivation is influenced by money–as are others supporting man-made global warming.)
“I want to close down the Federal Reserve”— Ron Paul
A group of geologists has formally proposed designating a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, which would encompass the past 200 years or so of geologic history. The action is appropriate, say the authors, because during the past 2 centuries, human activity has become the primary driver of most of the major changes in Earth’s topography and climate.
Thankyou Dave, for having such a beautiful mind and for sareing your thoughts with us.
Suzuki thinks there’s too many people on the planet. Guess what though. When it comes time for these guys to decide who has to be culled from the population it won’t be them and theres’.
Is this guy Pat Morita?
Michael Griffin NASA Administrator
“First of all, I don’t think it’s within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown, and second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings – where and when – are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.”
There are too many people on the planet, or you wouldn’t be thinking this way.
Suzuki is an intolerant fraud who can’t handle alternanive points of view. Any scientist who disagrees with him he paints as “being funded by big oil” an ad homenem attack. Even though the David Suzuki Foundation itself is partially funded by corporations from Alberta’s oil and gas sector.
David is very perceptive. Has he studied the Human Brain.
I thought we were passed the finger pointing stage??
The economy and the environment: the simple answer would be to manage the household (economics) with the guidance of, and understanding of the household (ecology). Sounds simple in theory, feasible at the local level, hard at the national level and extremely difficult to implement at the global level, due to socio-political stability being a prerequisite for ecological sustainability. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED! NOTHING IS INDEPENDENT.
We can expect that until there are population controls and equal standards of living, environmental problems will continue well into the future as there can be no prospect of a sustainable society when population (and material consumption) continues to grow rapidly.
Bataille wrote his book ‘The Accused Share,’ in the mid 1960′s he stated that, “if the threat of war (terrorism?) causes the United States to commit the major part of the excess (profit) to military manufactures, it will be useless to still speak of a peaceful evolution. In fact, war is bound to occur” (187). This unfortunately has come true, as the United States now spends 42.7% of their federal budget on military spending, this must be addressed (FCNL 2008).
Standard humanist perspective. Not wrong per se, just a humanist.
In light of abundant evidence, the denial of a Divine Creator is becoming an increasingly difficult belief system to live by.
The shrillness of frustration is often witnessed in the voices of Mr. Suzuki and other followers of his primal belief .
When consumers buy cars they get added to GDP. But cars wear out and must eventually be replaced. When consumers buy replacements they get added to GDP. But the cars that wore out never got subtracted from anywhere.
Economists don’t mention NDP much but only CAPITAL goods get depreciated. So that GDP as ECONOMIC GROWTH is actually nonsense.
Economists can’t do algebra.
They don’t mention the planned obsolescence of automobiles either. The laws of physics do not change year to year.
Good good. You’re paying attention in class. But the parts you got wrong were that the alternative points of view are somehow more valid, and that if he disagrees he is somehow a fraud.
You missed the whole point. You are a sad excuse for one of God’s creations. Could you try listening instead of projecting your world view on everyone else? Forget about what may or may not have happened 6 thousand (or whatever) years ago. Focus my friend, on what WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING
hockey: where do you come up with this stuff? The US FY06 budget was $2.7T of which $512B was spent on defense…and this was grossly high because of the war. Prior to the war, defense budgets were running about $300B/yr. We spent $544B on social security, $360B on unemployment/welfare, and $610B on free health care (medicaire/medicaid). Also, defense spending since the end of the vietnam war has run consistently at 4% of GDP (up to 6% now with the war). Get your facts straight.
This what happens when a television personality becomes an “expert”. Half truths and do not ever disagree with David on anything.
Although he claims that he does not take any money from the government he dos take money from the CBC. Who gives the CBC their money…the government. This is how he skates around telling the truth.
If we lived the way he wants there would be no electricity, running water or toilets.
I hope the folks in this audience were wearing hip waders.
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NEW truth – just out!
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A MUST see . . .
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