Last fall, the David Suzuki Foundation announced that I would be joining the team full-time this September as executive director. I write you today with a deep sense of excitement, responsibility and alignment for taking up this work. I've grown up with the Foundation. More than 30 years ago, my parents Tara Cullis and David Suzuki pulled together a crew of friends and
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David Suzuki: Faulty economic thinking makes destroying nature profitable
GDP measures production but does not account for damage to or loss of essential natural services, writes David Suzuki By David Suzuki
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Everything we need to survive – food, water, air, shelter – comes from nature, of which we are a part. Fuelled by the sun’s energy, this planet is amazing in its ability to replenish and recycle the basic elements of life.
Now people are outpacing Earth’s ability to maintain these essential services. Our economic systems not only ignore this unsustainable plunder, they encourage it. That’s led to a 70 per cent decline in mammal, bird, fish, reptile and amphibian populations over the past 50 years. One million plant and animal species – one-quarter of the global total – now face extinction.