"Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?" - David Suzuki - May 6, 2013
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Environmentalist and activist David Suzuki gave a lecture titled "Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?" at noon on May 6, 2013 at Western Washington University's Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, as part of Western's annual Japan Week Celebration. The event was co-sponsored by Japan Week and Western's Office of Sustainability. Suzuki is best known for his work as a radio and television host dealing with natural sciences in an easy to understand way, and has won numerous awards throughout his career in broadcasting. He has also received 25 honorary degrees from institutions in the United States, Canada and Australia and written 52 books, 19 of which are children's books. He also a co-author of "An Introduction to Genetic Analysis," one of the most widely used textbooks on Genetics in the United States. Suzuki graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree in Biology and received his doctorate in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. http://www.wwu.edu/
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The Indigenous Ppl were right; the white race homo sapiens have no soul ; all they see is money!
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More scare tactics to earn this guy large sums of money? Give it up David Ezra Levant has exposed you. I ask everyone to watch Ezra's research into who the REAL David Suzuki is. You can find it here on YouTube.
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What an inspirational and uplifting speeches you just gave thank you.
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It took around 200,000 years for the Earth’s population of modern homo sapiens to reach one-billion, at around 1803 CE. During my 70 years the Earth’s human population has tripled to 7.4-billion people. Those, who don’t see anything significant in this fact, must be living in a state of denial.
The vast majority of the world's still growing population of 7.4-billion people are likely to reject my and similar comments in favor of blind positivism. Most people have strong vested interests in doing so. It's become increasingly clear that many people reject evidence that doesn't support their existing deeply entrenched worldview. For them, maintaining these views is far more important than the trashed future our offspring will likely be inheriting.
Graph of human population from 10,000 BCE – 2000 CE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#/media/File:Population_curve.svg
David Suzuki speaks about overpopulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x98KFcMJeo
How the world went from 170 million people to 7.3 billion, in one map
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/30/10872878/world-population-map
Bindi Irwin's original (un-edited) essay regarding overpopulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYbNbJG3-1k
Having Children Brings High Carbon Impact
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/having-children-brings-high-carbon-impact/?_r=0
Earth Is In The Early Days Of A New Mass-Extinction Event, Researchers Warn
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/sixth-mass-biological-extinction-event_n_5621215.html
Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0081648
Climate Scientist: 2 Degrees of Warming Too Much
http://www.livescience.com/41690-2-degrees-of-warming-too-much.html
Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say
http://news.yahoo.com/dangerous-global-warming-closer-think-climate-scientists-110100636.html
Last Hours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRrg96UtMc
Human overpopulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation
Earth’s Land Mammals By Weight
http://xkcd.com/1338/
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"We need technology to solve the problems that we've created with technology in the first place " David Suzuki
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein
One of those people is genius, and one pretends to be one. -
One has to be an imbecile not to see a pattern here. After all the chemical crap that has been proven dangerous, how can anyone with a brain still believe that any invention of men on the molecular or genetic level is good? That's beyond me.
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Haa !!! Stupet !!?They are Denaying that very water to other humans !! :( At least go and fight for what you believe in and even kill other peoples children as you have done in the past very far back into the history, But please, please, please, please Dont deny the very air and water just because they come from Asia, or Africa or America....Most of the very people who are doing this are the most rich humans on this planet. I am shore they have been taken something, to be like this!! No any human will do this to other, not even animals do this to each other, Actially I dont think that No nothing on this OCean of planets and our little earth too do this to each other..............
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A guy who declared industrial wind turbines "beautiful" isn't as keen on ecology as he claims to be. He and others who tow that line are making major rationalizations for lost landscapes, dead birds & bats and people's lives being ruined by noise and blight. See: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2014/04/windmills-are-things-of-beauty/
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He's right about the economy, how it's a concept entirely made up by humans. Like how money is an imaginary concept made up by humans. You can't eat, drink, nor breathe money. In the natural world, the most use money would have, is that you could wipe your ass with it or set it on fire for heat (if it's paper currency).
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Suzuki is so full of shit ...and he knows it! This man gave up his family for fruit flies. He's a Marxist/atheist/globalist...and generally an idiot/talking head. Listen to this fool at your own peril!
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The pressure to grow is built right into the basement of the economy in the form of debt issued and interest bearing money-this design feature is atleast part of if not central to what keeps people relentlessly plundering the planet- in such a system people are compelled to keep finding ways to turn the planet into money!!!... just to survive in many cases or to thrive within such a system you have to play the game and the game is money. Its a tragic and stupid decision on the part of humanity to allow money to call the shots yet what choice do we have unless we invent them.
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everyword true! thank you for saying it out loud and don`t stop !!:)
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Japan may look fine superficially, but the population will collapse and will likely never recover. They are further ahead than other countries due to the small amount of usable land and hostility to immigration. Steady-state economies cannot exist, civilization either rises or falls, it does not stand still.
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Rules for everyone else except him. Collectivization ? That's the answer to scarcity? 3% of the farms were private in Stalinist Russia and produced 25% of the country's food needs. The remaining 97% couldn't do the rest.
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I was there - I'm in the front row with the camera. Great speech by Dr. Suzuki.
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Bullshit makes the world go 'round. Take it away David.
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Typical. Negative comments attack the messenger not the message.
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The economy "needs to be fixed"--no, I'd say we need to do away with the economy altogether. We need to align ourselves with the laws of nature, keep the health of humans and the planet paramount, and devise a system where we use our ever increasing technological advancement to create a sustainable system that works for all involved. We don't need politics or corporations or capitalism. All of these things are, like he said, "human constructs" and thus they can be abandoned--they no longer serve us, they are invalid ideas.
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he may have three homes, yet do you mean his commentary or his points as a scientists are false? whether he owns homes or not...or how he conducts himself, he s not a monk. otherwise, are you saying his points on scientific ideas regarding the environment are false? perahps they are...but i m seeing him speaking more truth that false. and seems as if right wing sets him up..or am i wrong?
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