Today, despite decades of environmental activism, Dr. Suzuki said he felt a lingering sense of failure. Environmentalists had failed to change the way humans see themselves in relation to nature, he said. Businesses and politicians were still driven by economic growth at the environment’s expense.
After cautioning about environmental damage on TV for decades, David Suzuki, 87, one of Canada’s most famous scientists, felt a sense of defeat as he watched forests burn and temperatures soar this ...
I'm 56. I have watched him my entire life. We didn't listen. Entirely preventable and yet, here we are. As a youth I sold green bins. (Manitobans' privatized version of blue bins) People will express surprise at our demise. Even people my age and older. But they do know. So many warned them.
I am not sure he failed as much as the propaganda on the polluting side won. It has been steady manipulation for decades. How to combat that is the question.
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