David Suzuki's conspiracy theory

Excerpts from this interview with prominent alarmist David Suzuki:

...Why didn't we do anything? I think it was because the fossil fuel industry was very, very successful at supporting a handful of sceptics...[who]... created confusion. To the public it seemed as though questions about the reality of climatic change hadn't been settled yet.
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Stanford University ecologist Paul Ehrlich says is that there are a thousand ecological Pearl Harbours going on at once and we need to marshall…effort worldwide. Y’know…whenever you go to a…science fiction film about aliens threatening all of humanity, the first thing you see is the American President is calling the Russian President or the Chinese President…In the movies, when there’s an invader from outer space, everybody recognizes a common interest and they pour whatever they can into it…This is exactly what we need now, except the invader is us…