{"id":3870,"date":"2010-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/david-suzuki-makes-an-emotional-plea-on-nz-close-up-tv\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:51","slug":"david-suzuki-makes-an-emotional-plea-on-nz-close-up-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/david-suzuki-makes-an-emotional-plea-on-nz-close-up-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"David Suzuki Makes An Emotional Plea On NZ Close Up TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/strong>But \u201cDo not give up - we can never give up!\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Forty years of calling out climate
\n change and what we are doing to our planet - he's now very emotionally charged, because we the public have been lied to by the fossil fuel industry,
\n just like the cigarette industry before that, when both industries knew that there huge problems relating to their product, especially with global
\n warming - and as far back as the early 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Death Zone<\/h3>\n

He states now that we have entered the Death Zone - that there are multiple tipping points that we have passed over - that we must not give up in despair
\n - not become disheartened - no matter what!<\/p>\n

50 thousand species are becoming extinct a year. But, where is the media? They don\u2019t mention this, but if the NZ dollar goes up a few percentage points
\n or down a few percentage points it\u2019s splashed over the front page and on TV.<\/p>\n

He states that we have to disentangle from the global economy, produce our own food and clothing and localise more.<\/p>\n

So as a 74 years old (then) - now 80 years old - he has nothing to lose - all he wants to say to his children and grandchildren when they gather around
\n his death bed is … I did my best.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

A no holds barred interview 5 minutes!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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