Julie Payette Quotes
It is one planet and we all have a duty to protect it. We have to work together. We have to use our power to work together and make decisions and changes that are needed to preserve our world.
Payette, Julie. "Keynote Address at the Canadian Science Policy Conference." The Governor General of Canada, Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, 1 Nov. 2017.
Preserving the environment in a modern state involves restrictions of various kinds ranging from limits on land use to prohibiting of hunting of endangered species. Each of these limits individual freedom somewhat. This is the main reason that there is a significant anti-environmentalism movement. Most laws and regulations restrict human freedom somewhat, and generally democratic societies limit these to the very necessary. But with environmentalism, more regulation is usually better environmentalism. Therefore such regulation is always a trade off with some human freedom.
Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served as Governor General of Canada from 2017 to 2021, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.