Political Leaders Should Be Jailed, Says Environmental Scientist Dr. David Suzuki
posted February 8, 2008 - 10:27amDr. David Suzuki wants political leaders who ignore climate change to be sent to jail.
Dr. Suzuki is well recognised personality from his popular TV series The Nature of Things, which has been broadcast around the world. Within academic circles, he is a highly honoured and respected environmental scientist.< p>
In a speech at the McGill Business Conference in Montreal, Canada, he said there should be a "legal" way of sending political leaders to jail, for their "intergenerational crime". His receptive audience broke into rounds of applause.
These hard words did not find favour with some, and his spokesman tried to water them down by saying that Dr. Suzuki did not mean them literally. (Perhaps he meant them metaphorically -- to mean what?) In fact, these remarks were similar to previous remarks he had made.
Dr. Suzuki is criticised by some for holding such a totalitarian attitude, which seems to jar with his role as a former director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Whether it's right or not to take such a hard line is debatable, but it seems to demean this great man to suggest he is unable to say what he means.
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They shouldn't stop with just political leaders
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