With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

Since the mid-1970s Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. Suzuki was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine The Nature of Things seen in over forty nations.