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Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki
National Post ^

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; agwbull; envirowhackos; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarning; nazi; suzuki
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1 posted on 02/07/2008 8:29:16 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

civil liberties heh


2 posted on 02/07/2008 8:30:51 AM PST by ari-freedom (Gong hei fat choy!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a complete Nazi.


3 posted on 02/07/2008 8:30:54 AM PST by mallardx
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To: Sub-Driver

Liberal Fascism. There you go.


4 posted on 02/07/2008 8:31:19 AM PST by SolidWood (Romney/Thompson 2008 - Save the Republic!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, jail politicians who believe Algore’s bogus science.


5 posted on 02/07/2008 8:31:37 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (And close the damned borders!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Global warming Nazi Youth movement.

Resistance is futile.


6 posted on 02/07/2008 8:32:52 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: mallardx
What a complete Nazi.

BINGO ... Wait till some idiot in the US decides that this guy has the right idea. National Socialism in America ...

7 posted on 02/07/2008 8:33:01 AM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t a Suzuki a cheap motorcycle?


8 posted on 02/07/2008 8:33:01 AM PST by edcoil
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To: Sub-Driver

enviroMENTALists are totalitarians,

stalinists.


9 posted on 02/07/2008 8:33:03 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: Sub-Driver

Lysenko would be proud.


10 posted on 02/07/2008 8:33:07 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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From his statements, it appears that “Dr” Suzuki’s degree is not in physics...and if it is, he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.


11 posted on 02/07/2008 8:33:20 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sub-Driver

Well it is blasphemy to speak against it.


12 posted on 02/07/2008 8:34:49 AM PST by stevio ((NRA))
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To: Sub-Driver

Jailing someone who doesn’t believe in this fraud?

Well, that figures with the libs.


13 posted on 02/07/2008 8:35:15 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: edcoil

and a car................

http://www.suzukiauto.com/


14 posted on 02/07/2008 8:35:33 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Sub-Driver

When will they start stoning the Creationists?


15 posted on 02/07/2008 8:36:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Ecological Sharia Law..............


16 posted on 02/07/2008 8:36:10 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Sub-Driver

Fascist pig


17 posted on 02/07/2008 8:36:55 AM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: Sub-Driver

His kind persecuted Copernicus and Galileo, too, when they tried to prove that the earth wasn’t flat and the sun didn’t revolve around it. Science by Goracle fiat didn’t work then and it won’t work now.


18 posted on 02/07/2008 8:37:24 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: Sub-Driver
I say go further. Jail all of those who prefer Hydrox to Oreo. Oh...wait, they don’t make Hydrox anymore . . .never mind.

What Fascist hysteria!

19 posted on 02/07/2008 8:37:26 AM PST by TCats
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To: Da Coyote

From WIKI:

Suzuki received his BA from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1958, and his Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.


20 posted on 02/07/2008 8:37:46 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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