"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism." (David Suzuki)
I recently heard the annual National Symons Lecture on the State of the Canadian Confederation given by Canada's greatest spokesperson for the environment, David Suzuki. I am both inspired and impassioned to continue promoting (as I have for many years) the man and his views to my students; in fact, I am determined to invite him to our school to address an audience of high school students who never more needed than now to hear Dr. Suzuki's dire prognostications of a modern civilization that has made it impossible to advance without destroying the biosphere that sustains us. Canada's great Statesman will tell the young, in no uncertain terms, that a growing appetite for a lifestyle predicated on more gadgetry, transportation conveniences and urbanization of a once pristine rural environment is incommensurate now with survival as an animal species.
A time was never more ripe for skepticism among our young and a serious reevaluation of what our role is as co-sharers of a very precious non-renewable planet.
