Jail politicians who ignore science: Suzuki
Environmentalist denounces economists’ obsession with GDPSuzuki, an award-winning Canadian scientist, environmentalist, and broadcaster, kicked off the McGill Business Conference on Sustainability by addressing the conference’s theme of “looking backward and moving forward.”
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He urged today’s youth to speak out against politicians complicit in climate change, even suggesting they look for a legal way to throw our current political leaders in jail for ignoring science – drawing rounds of cheering and applause. Suzuki said that politicians, who never see beyond the next election, are committing a criminal act by ignoring science.But in a nod to the hosts of his speech, Suzuki connected the environment to the economy, explaining the trouble he sees in mainstream economists’ call for unbridled economic growth.
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He criticized the short-sightedness of economists and their constant need for increased growth, which will eventually be impossible. “We live within the biosphere. It can’t grow, it’s fixed!” he exclaimed.
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Suzuki also faulted the use of the Gross Domestic Product – which increases after oil spills and health crises – as a “nutty” indicator of growth.
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“We are the environment. There is no distinction. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves,” he said.
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