As the Rio+20 Earth Summit — the largest U.N. conference ever — ends in
disappointment, we’re joined by the leading Canadian scientist,
environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. As host of the
long-running CBC program, "The Nature of
Things," seen in more than 40 countries, Suzuki has helped educate
millions about the rich biodiversity of the planet and the threats it
faces from human-driven global warming. In 1990 he co-founded the David
Suzuki Foundation which focuses on sustainable ecology and in 2009, he
was awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Suzuki joins us from the summit
in Rio de Janeiro to talk about the climate crisis, the student protests
in Quebec, his childhood growing up in an internment camp, and his
daughter Severn’s historic speech at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 when
she was 12 years-old. "If we don’t see that we are utterly embedded in
the natural world and dependent on Mother Nature for our very well-being
and survival ... then our priorities will continue to be driven by
man-made constructs like national borders, economies, corporations,
markets," Suzuki says. "Those are all human created things. They
shouldn’t dominate the way we live. It should be the biosphere, and the
leaders in that should be indigenous people who still have that sense
that the earth is truly our mother, that it gives birth to us. You don’t
treat your mother the way we treat the planet or the biosphere today."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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