Scientist Tells Bill Moyers That Letting Climate Change Happen Is an 'Intergenerational Crime'
http://www.alternet.org/environment/david-suzuki-time-get-real-climate-change
http://vimeo.com/94622378
This week, as the White House issued a landmark report detailing the frightening affects of global warming on our country and President Obama took to the airwaves to drive home that message, Bill Moyers talks with a scientist who has sounded the alarm for decades.
For nearly 35 years, David Suzuki has brought science into the homes of millions on the Canadian television series, The Nature of Things. He has become a godfather of the environmental movement, and in a poll of his fellow Canadians last fall he was named that countrys most admired figure. Nonetheless, his outspoken views on climate change and the governments collusion with the petrochemical industry in developing Canadas oil-rich tar sands have made him the target of relentless attacks from his nations prime minister, corporations and right-wing ideologues.
Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness. ... I think that we are being willfully blind to the consequences for our children and grandchildren. Its an intergenerational crime, Suzuki tells Moyers.
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