What will it take to make conservation of the iconic Pacific wild salmon a priority? A report released this week by the David Suzuki Foundation, “An Upstream Battle: Declines in 10 Pacific Salmon Stocks and Solutions for Their Survival”, shows dramatic population declines in 10 representative salmon stocks – anywhere from 70 per cent to 93 per cent since the early 1990s. In an article headlined “If it's salmon or money, the salmon lose every time”, the Vancouver Sun’s Stephen Hume says it’s time for everyone, from commercial fishers to government officials, to put the long-term survival of salmon ahead of short-term economic gain. And he doesn’t let individuals off the hook, either. “The onus for change lies not with the bullied bureaucrats but with the voters who have the power to hold accountable those to whom they delegate authority,” Mr. Hume writes. Given the salmon’s important role in B.C.’s coastal and freshwater ecosystems, it’s not just the salmon’s future that depends on immediate action – it’s our own future and the future of our children and grandchildren.
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lora bruncke
I can't believe it is so quiet on this site!
As for the salmon: if man does not get a plumber soon, we will all be down the toilet.
Victoria, are you listening?
Lora
lora bruncke
Am passing on information I got at blogs.takepart.com.
I read that there is a great Pacific garbage patch of swirling plastic!!
It is over 100 million tons!
It is bigger that two USs!
Could this be true?!!!
Wow, did we ever mess up!
Waste from oil made into plastic to be used once and thrown away!
Down with oil guzzling internal combustion engines!
Up with solar, wind and anything else moral men can come up with!
Go Suzuki and team, and everyone else committed to saving the planet from our own stupidity!
Deuce Fraser
Dave,
u SuK... you get it. there is no Global-Warming, cooling, climate-change, BS.
Yur a frustrated hippie turned tv personality.
Deuce Fraser
Dave,
u SuK... you get it. there is no Global-Warming, cooling, climate-change, BS.
Yur a frustrated hippie turned tv personality.
lebrown
tell david suzuki (or yamaha or honda) to shut his stupid face. that should save some CO2! what an idiot. fuck him and his agenda. or kiss humanity goodbye.
lora bruncke
I would like to point out to deuce and lebrown that many things Dr. Suzuki has been saying for years are coming true. Al Gore is the CO2 activist and many other support climate change. If you do not see it, so be it.
As for kissing humanity goodbye - how do you expect us to keep our cities maintained when mother nature and age are ravaging men's civilization while he uses the planet as a garbage dump.
Pesticides are now being linked to disease and are being outright banned.
Clear cutting killed our forests. The smaller the gene pool the weaker the species.
The oceans are being destroyed, as he predicted.
Disease is rampant and AIDS was probably caused by the polio vaccine given in the Belgium Congo between 57 and 60.
I could go on but you should get it.
The man is a genius and you, alas, are not.