For Environmentalism to Succeed, It Needs to Go Away by David Suzuki

Environmentalist David Suzuki expresses his hope that environmentalism will be absorbed into the public consciousness. "Environmentalism shouldn't be a specialty, or an area of expertise," says Suzuki. "It's a way of seeing ourselves in the world, and seeing that we are utterly dependent on the natural world for our survival and well-being."

The environmental movement in Australia was the first in the world to become a political movement and Australia was home to the world's first Green Party. Australian public opinion and policies have been swayed in the past on crucial issues such as land conservation and nuclear power, but what about climate change?

What is the environmental movement doing right and where is it failing? At a packed theatre at Melbourne's "Sustainable Living Festival", an extraordinary line up of panelists debate how the environmental movement can best negotiate the most critical global issue it has faced to date... climate change. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Award-winning geneticist and broadcaster David Suzuki is the Foundation's co-founder with Tara Cullis. He is familiar to audiences around the world as host of CBC TV's long-running series, The Nature of Things. From 1969 to 2001 he was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and is currently professor emeritus. He has authored over 40 books, and is widely recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology.