David Suzuki Priorities Quotations

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.