“The planet, hell! What about my nuts?”

—  David Suzuki

Rick and David Suzuki get rescued http://web.archive.org/web/20070124035126/http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/backissues.php?season=4, Rick Mercer Report, Feb 20 2007, in reply to Mercer's attempt to get him to jump into a frozen lake "for the planet".

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Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist 1936

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