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34. Suzuki and Dressel, From Naked Ape to Superspecies, 79.
35. Suzuki and Dressel, From Naked Ape to Superspecies, 79.
36. Suzuki and Dressel, From Naked Ape to Superspecies, 79. Interestingly, Innis
made the same point: “An advance in the state of industrialism reflected in the speed
of the newspaper press and the radio meant a decline in the importance of biological
time determined by agriculture.” Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 74.
37. Knudtson and Suzuki, Wisdom of the Elders, 145. In his staples writings Innis
also observed that the demand for fur hats was out of synch with the breeding cycle
of beavers, that “the length of time required for [these animals] to arrive at maturity
was an important factor in the destruction of the supply of fur.” Harold A. Innis, The
Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (1930; revised,
with Foreword by Robin W. Winks, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967), 5.
38. David Suzuki, Metamorphosis: Stages in Life (Toronto: Stoddart, 1987), 263.