Take my research, please
October 7th, 2006

From ThingsAreGood commentary and link to David Suzuki blog entry:

Recently, news blogs and newspapers reported that some politicians had cribbed research conducted by my foundation and used the information to build their own environmental agendas.

This news sent many a blogger all atwitter. While some of them focused on whether or not the information had been adequately referenced, others decried this action on the part of the politicians as proving that they had no ideas of their own, so they had to steal them from others.

Allow me to clear something up right now. To all politicians looking for ways to reduce our footprint on nature – or, to use politician-speak, create an “environmental platform”: Knock yourselves out. Feel free to steal, pilfer, borrow, rent, filch or otherwise take any research my foundation does and put it to good use….

My foundation is just one of dozens of organizations across Canada offering solutions to the country’s environmental and social problems. Rather than ignoring these solutions because they don’t come from
within a particular party, it is my hope that our political leaders open their eyes, embrace change and start taking advantage of all this free advice. That isn’t stealing, it’s just good leadership.

Take my research, please, Science Matters by David Suzuki