Posted on 02/07/2008 8:29:15 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki
Didn't mean it literally says scientist's spokesperson
David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change.
At a Montreal conference last Thursday, the prominent scientist, broadcaster and Order of Canada recipient exhorted a packed house of 600 to hold politicians legally accountable for what he called an intergenerational crime. Though a spokesman said yesterday the call for imprisonment was not meant to be taken literally, Dr. Suzuki reportedly made similar remarks in an address at the University of Toronto last month.
The proposal has lit up many conservative blogs since it was first reported by the McGill Daily on Monday.
Addressing the McGill Business Conference on Sustainability, hosted by the Faculty of Management, Dr. Suzuki's wide-ranging speech warned against favouring the economy to the detriment of the ecology -- the tarsands in Northern Alberta being his prime example.
"You have lived your entire lives in a completely unsustainable period," he told students and fans. "You all think growth and [climate] change is normal. It's not."
Toward the end of his speech, Dr. Suzuki said that "we can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton" and then encouraged attendees to hold politicians to a greater green standard.
"What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act," said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
"It's an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years."
The statement elicited rounds of applause.
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Oh no-ooooooooo! Not ANOTHER Zoologist come to tell the rest of the world, *what it is* ...
Why don't these guys go back to doing somthing they're more qualified for, like shoveling elephant dung!
Jail is too good for them. Stripped naked, tarred and feathered, would be more appropriate. And hey, I'm trying to show a little mercy here...
After flak, says he didn't mean it literally?
Sounds pretty literal to me =
Sounds to me he just let the cat out of the bag early, forgetting he was talking 'out loud' -
This is the kind of thinking that leads to political prisoners - it has happened in our lifetimes in other countries - it can happen here.
We damn well better wake up
Ah yes, the ever so tolerant academic left celebrates diversity yet again.
Where do you think it comes from?
I can hear gorebore in the background.
This guy is only spouting the plans already drawn up by these very dangerous people - who do not believe in their own GW rhetoric. It's all one giant ponzi scheme to install Universal Socialism - drawing off the wealth of the world, with them on the top of the heap, the rest of us trying to survive at the bottom.
I'm good with jailing Al Gore, Obama, HRC, Schwartzenegger, and McCain for ignoring the science behind global warming.
Few Scientists deny that the trend is towards a warmer earth, but there is very little data to suggest that it is beyond the bounds of normal variation and that the problem is exacerbated by human activity.
Yeah, that makes him qualified to spout off about the science of climatology...
and these same people want to prohibit - and now jail - the actual climatologists who refute their GW hoax
The sheeple better wake up soon
The “Springtime for Hitler” Youth?
We may have discovered who the next Hitler is. Al Gore wins my vote.
Explain why the word of a zoologist should be believed on climate change.
Nope, you’re thinking of a Harley.
Why limit to just the GWDers. Lock up all of em
“This guy is only spouting the plans already drawn up by these very dangerous people - who do not believe in their own GW rhetoric. It’s all one giant ponzi scheme to install Universal Socialism - drawing off the wealth of the world, with them on the top of the heap, the rest of us trying to survive at the bottom.”
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Masterfully succinct and eloquent, my FRiend. To my mind, it’s the unifying theory for all the lunacy that passes for politics and public discourse these days.
“This guy is only spouting the plans already drawn up by these very dangerous people - who do not believe in their own GW rhetoric. It’s all one giant ponzi scheme to install Universal Socialism - drawing off the wealth of the world, with them on the top of the heap, the rest of us trying to survive at the bottom.”
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Masterfully succinct and eloquent, my FRiend. To my mind, it’s the unifying theory for all the lunacy that passes for politics and public discourse these days.
Maybe more the AntiChrist.
I have a hard time in understanding that hordes of sheeple adore goreBore - (the AntiChrist is supposed to be so adored) = because every time I hear/see goreBore I feel like this
But there are minions that worship at his clay feet
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I'm not British!...........
Where is the “KOOL-AID DRINKER” ALERT?
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