QUOTABLE QUOTE by CANADA'S LEADING ENVIRONMENTALIST AND SCIENTIST -DAVID SUZUKI


QUOTABLE QUOTE by CANADA'S LEADING ENVIRONMENTALIST AND SCIENTIST -DAVID SUZUKI
Whereas, our species once lived  lightly on Earth, today we have exploded in numbers, technological dexterity, and demand for consumer goods to such a degree that we are now co-opting much of the planet ‘s production for our use.  
In the process, we deprive other species of habitat and opportunity,  and so drive them to extinction. Stanford University ecologist Paul Ehrlich’s group estimated that human beings, one species among millions, harness for our use, 40% of the net primary productivity of the planet. That is , of all the sunlight captured by plants, human beings deny a large portion of it by using it for pasture, farmland, logging and so on.



“Remarkably, if we pull back and decrease or halt our assault on a given environment, nature can restore itself. We have seen life return to Lake Erie, once declared ‘dead’ from eutrophication and fish 🐠 appearing in the River Thames in England after anti-pollution were imposed."   A Sacred Planet  1997






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