World famous environmental scientist and host of the well-known TV series The Nature of Things, Dr. David Suzuki accuses political leaders who ignore climate change of committing an "intergenerational crime". He says there should be some legal way that such leaders should be thrown into prison.
He made these remarks in a speech in Montreal, at the McGill Business Conference. It was well received by his audience who gave him rounds of applause.
Known as a libertarian, Dr. Suzuki, who has been a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, has astonished some by adopting such an apparently hard line. His spokesman shortly afterwards assumed the defensive by saying that Dr. Suzuki did not mean his remarks literally.
Dr. Suzuki is a scientist, and one assumes his speaks with accuracy. It seems his spokesman is playing politician, which I am sure is exactly what Dr Suzuki does not want.
What he said in Montreal is consistent with what he had said in the past, as in the previous month in a speech at the University of Toronto.
Perhaps science and politics cannot mix, and when the two things are mixed together, the mixture tends to be unstable and may even be explosive.
Suzuki Wants Political Leaders Jailed
He made these remarks in a speech in Montreal, at the McGill Business Conference. It was well received by his audience who gave him rounds of applause.
Known as a libertarian, Dr. Suzuki, who has been a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, has astonished some by adopting such an apparently hard line. His spokesman shortly afterwards assumed the defensive by saying that Dr. Suzuki did not mean his remarks literally.
Dr. Suzuki is a scientist, and one assumes his speaks with accuracy. It seems his spokesman is playing politician, which I am sure is exactly what Dr Suzuki does not want.
What he said in Montreal is consistent with what he had said in the past, as in the previous month in a speech at the University of Toronto.
Perhaps science and politics cannot mix, and when the two things are mixed together, the mixture tends to be unstable and may even be explosive.
Suzuki Wants Political Leaders Jailed
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