Quotes by Severn Cullis-Suzuki - Page 1

This aged economic system is out of date!
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Economic
Economic Systems
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If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Know How
Ozone
Please
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We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Extinction
Mass
Heading
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It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Revolution
Forefront
People Young Always
Young People
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Engaging with your school as a unit of community is pretty powerful.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Engaging
Unit
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When you are little, it's not hard to believe you can change the world.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Change Believe World
Change The World
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At nine, I started catching fish in Vancouver full of tumours from toxins.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Catching
Nine
Vancouver
Fish
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When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Future
Society
Lost
Actions
Connection
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As a parent, I understand that on an individual level parents would do anything for their child.
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Parent
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Social media has democratised platforms of expression so much - now a child can have a very loud voice.
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Loud
Platforms
Social Media Voice Media
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I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Sea
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Slow business is an interesting area because it's taking into consideration the reality that we have to make a living.
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Consideration
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Growing up there was always a sense of 'We have so many gifts and we have to use that for the betterment of the planet.'
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Betterment
Gifts
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Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Ocean
Air
Clean
Clean Air
Cost
Translate
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I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Children
Goal
Together
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Reducing our personal impact on the Earth via our ecological footprint, stop driving cars, eat less meat, all these things matter.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Ecological
Footprint
Meat
Reducing
Via
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I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Fighting
Rio
Summit
Years Ago
Speaking
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Despite humans killing off whales as much as they could, give it time and they come back. If we give nature a chance, it will regenerate.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Despite
Humans
Whales
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I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Fewer
Growing Up
Natural
Natural World
Worry
Experiencing
More And More
Outdoors
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I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone, I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Air
Breathe
Chemicals
Holes
Ozone
Sun
Now
Afraid
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The Haida people taught me when you are depleted, go to places that are sacred for you - the ocean, or a forest. That is where you will find incredible energy.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Ocean
Sacred
Me Energy People
Depleted
Forest
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We're in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Adaptation
Climate Change
Change Time Reality
Refugees
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Real environmental change depends on us. We can't wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and how we can make the change happen.
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Environmental
Depends
Focus
Wait
Happen
Leaders
Responsibilities
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I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Environmental
War
Answers
Poverty
Wonderful
Child
Ending
Finding
Spent
Wonderful Place
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I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Environmental
Advocating
Internationally
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When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide you with that good.
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Buying
Supporting
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I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Environmental
Environmental Movement
Identify
So-Called
Specifically
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When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices - education, career, lifestyle - life gets more and more complicated.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Education
Choices
Complicated
Lifestyle
Simple
Young
Adult
Life Learning World
Life Education Learning
Career
Gets
More And More
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I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.
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Environmental
Environmental Issues
Pretend
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In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Great
Children
Wonder
Now
Life Will My Life
Life Great Will
Animals
Birds
Butterflies
Wild
Full
Exist
Dreamt
Even
Herd
My Life
See
Wild Animals
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Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't believe some people would treat other human beings like they weren't even the same species.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Identical
Racism
Sides
Species
Traits
World Believe Me
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When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's much more expensive, and facing so many challenges attempting to do the right thing.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Attempting
Diapers
Expensive
Right Thing
Supplies
Washing
Became
Do The Right Thing
Facing
Organic
The Right Thing
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The '90s came, and then the 2000s, and we saw radical corporate interest extremism, we've seen the disparity between rich and poor just get bigger, with globalisation and the corporate agenda on the rise ever since.
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Corporate
Disparity
Extremism
Globalisation
Agenda
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I don't want to be involved with just the environment because I think other issues tie so much into the environment, like native issues, children's issues, women's rights - I think they all completely tie into each other, even the economy.
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Economy
Environment
Involved
Native
Tie
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At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us to not fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share - not be greedy: then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Fighting
Hurt
School
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You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Animal
Desert
Forests
Grew
Holes
Layers
Ozone
Please
Salmon
Now
Once
Back
Back Up
Breaking
Fix
Dead
How
Extinct
Layer
Stop
Stream
Where
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Fragmentation is a big part of the problem. You have a city where trash is taken away from the curb every week, and you don't see it any more, and you don't have any sense of where water comes from. So there's no sense of responsibility and accountability and there's also no sense of empowerment for our actions.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Accountability
Curb
Empowerment
Fragmentation
Trash
Big Part
No Sense
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I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Activist
Agreement
Branded
Destruction
Militant
Right Thing
Complicit
Do The Right Thing
Inherently
No Choice
The Right Thing
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In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Creatures
Greedy
Mess
Love Work Respect
Clean Up
Reflect
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In my home city of Vancouver, most people put out their recycling boxes. The organic grocery and cafe on Fourth Avenue is flourishing. Bikes are popular, and there are a few gas-electric hybrid cars gliding around. But as this new century begins, my twentysomething generation is becoming increasingly disconnected from the natural world.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Becoming
Boxes
Century
Disconnected
Flourishing
Fourth
Gliding
Hybrid
Natural World
Recycling
Vancouver
Avenue
Home World City
Begins
Bikes
Cafe
Generation
Grocery
Increasingly
Popular
Organic
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Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color, and then there are native people, who were the first people of this country and have suffered so much just because some newcomers came over and said 'hey this looks like a nice place to set up camp, just hand it over to us.'
Severn Cullis-Suzuki / Television Host
Hey
Native
Newcomers
Skin Color
Look Black People
Suffered
First People
Look Black Country
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