David Suzuki: Time to Talk Extinction

In this interview, Dr. David Suzuki, Canadian environmental scientist and educator, talks about the latest science of climate change. Suzuki makes the jaw-dropping statement based on a recent climate report that there is less than a 5% chance that planetary temperature rise will stay below 2º Celsius this century per the UN IPCC Paris Agreement. (Video minute 15:10 and again at 32:25). And we’re currently on a trajectory to hit over 4 degrees. Suzuki makes the case that we need to start facing the possibility of the extinction of the human species. Suzuki: “We’re at the 59th minute.”

Timestamps

20:06 Why humanity has only got 1 minute left to live

25:25 Humans are the only species that don’t care about their own children

29:17 Educate yourself on politics or don’t complain about the government

36:26 Can we be saved from our own extinction?

59:09 A final challenge for entrepreneurs