It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost.

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71. I don't think most of them are well aware of how far the climate has gone south.

The last ten years of my career I worked in post-secondary education. I always had students that worked for me if they were on work study or internships. I got to know each and every one of them and some that didn't work directly with me also. I clearly remember the ones who were absolutely passionate about the environment. I clearly remember them because there were so few of them. One of the guys who was an avid environmentalist was a self-proclaimed Republican. We had some conversations about how he could support a party that does so little to address climate change. This was before the GOP had gone completely over to the dark side. He said that was where people like him were needed the most. OK, good answer. One of the girls who worked for me did not have a driver's license and had no desire to have a car because of the environmental impact. But the majority of them didn't give much thought to their own personal actions with regard to the environment. At the law school at the beginning of each new class, the Dean would have an assembly of all the new students and ask them to state why they were going into law and what type of law they wanted to pursue. I don't remember any one of them saying environmental law though one girl said animal rights law which I guess was close. A lot of them said to make a lot of money. Yeah, it was very discouraging.

Materialism was one of the traits that was evident among a lot of them. I'd look at them and see the cars they drove, the clothes they wore, the amount of money they spent just on coffee drinks and going out to eat. I was in my 60's and was fairly comfortable financially and I still would never have spent that kind of money and neither would my three coworkers that were about my age. We used to have many conversations about it.