#ge

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bags #become #control #dependent #easy

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. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #climate #decades #droughts #events

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #connecting #dangerous #dirty #facebook

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house. ↗

— David Suzuki

#get #house #i #kid #norm

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #chasing #get #pedestal #people

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#plus #skill #ten #thousand #times

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#absolute #amazed #around #asinine #correct

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change! ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#being #change #changes #day #does