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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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The parallel drawn between the bullying AGW advocates and the supposed flat-earthers' persecution of Copernicus. etc. is common and amusing rhetorical comparison. I am sorry to have to bring up the point that it does have one drawback: its not true.
Mikołaj Kopernik (Copernicus) was a Catholic cleric in good standing with the Church during his lifetime and when he died, having published his great book on the heliocentric solar system, was buried with honors at the Cathedral of Frauenburg.
Nobody in Medieval Europe believed that the earth was flat, as historian Thomas Madden points out in this fine article. As for the Galileo affair, you might get a more accurate historic perspective here.
Other than that, though: good point.
These guys are the Hitlers of the future, and we had better realize that before it’s too late.
even Marx, Lenin and Mao in their wildest dreams never forsaw this.
you are absolutely correct and they appear to be succeeding...one indicator to track would be the careers of academics who don't ascribe.
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