We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David SuzukiRead
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes Japan's potential to lead in renewable energy alternatives to nuclear and fossil fuels.
David Suzuki highlights Japan as a crucial case study for rethinking economic growth in terms of sustainability. He suggests that if Japan can successfully transition to renewable energy sources, they could become a leading example for the world, demonstrating that a shift away from traditional energy sources is both viable and necessary for a sustainable future.
Themes
JapanRenewable EnergySustainabilityEconomic GrowthFossil FuelsNuclear Energy
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about sustainable development, one might quote Suzuki to emphasize the need for alternative energy solutions.
More from David Suzuki
All quotes →As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
David SuzukiRead
One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
David SuzukiRead
The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David SuzukiRead
Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.
David SuzukiRead
We no longer see the world as a single entity. We've moved to cities and we think the economy is what gives us our life, that if the economy is strong we can afford garbage collection and sewage disposal and fresh food and water and electricity. We go through life thinking that money is the key to having whatever we want, without regard to what it does to the rest of the world.
David SuzukiRead
Similar quotes
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.
Oscar AriasRead
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.
Mark TwainRead
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
Al GoreRead
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
Pope Pius XiiRead
Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.
Martin ReesRead
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.
Richard DawkinsRead