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Special report: Interview – The environmental activist

By Jo Marchant

15 October 2008

What makes us fool ourselves that things have never been better? Why do we fail to live within the constraints that our planet and biology have set for us, when future generations will pay the price? As Canadian campaigner and activist David Suzuki tells Jo Marchant, those are the questions that keep him awake nights

Is anything more important than the environment?

I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

So why do we put the economy first, and use it to define progress?

You would have…

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