"Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.“

-David Suzuki

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"With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose."

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"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous."

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"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."

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"Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us."

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"As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside."

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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."

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