David Suzuki
David Suzuki , an award-winning geneticist and broadcaster, co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990. He was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, and is currently professor emeritus. Suzuki is widely recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology and has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science and a United Nations Environment Program medal.
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Views Friday, September 04, 2020 We Are Living in a Plastic World Almost every product and material we refer to as “plastic” is made from fossil fuels. Most of it hasn’t been around for long—a little over 70 years for the most common products. North American grocery stores didn’t start offering plastic bags until the late 1970s. Over that short time, plastics... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 25, 2020 Coal Power Should Be Relegated to the Ash Heap of History During and after his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again . He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it's no surprise that he'd promote a cheap, outdated, polluting, climate-altering fuel even as cleaner alternatives continued to become more efficient and... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 27, 2020 Multiple Crises Signal the Need to Change Course The virus spreading Covid-19 worldwide jumped from non-human animals to people — as have most new diseases, from AIDS to SARS to Ebola. We may not know the precise origin of this particular coronavirus, but we understand the factors behind its spread to humans. And we've seen the devastation a tiny... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 04, 2020 Let's Come Together in These Physically Distancing Times These are difficult times, especially for people who lack safe shelter, food and other necessities — and for those on the front lines. Even though we must maintain physical distance, we need to come together more than ever. As bad as things are, and could get, compassion and wisdom will ensure that... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 01, 2019 Failure to Address Climate Crisis Puts Children at Risk On Nov. 12, Veneto, Italy's regional council was debating climate policy in its Venice offices. Minutes after a majority voted against budget amendments to address climate disruption, the chambers were inundated with water . Venice is known for flooding, but it's getting worse, and the timing in... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 19, 2019 Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises For other species, climate impacts are not as direct. The 2019 State of Canada’s Birds report found aerial insectivores like swifts, swallows and nightjars have declined by 59 per cent since 1970. The report cites climate change as one of several threats, as severe weather limits insect... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 06, 2019 Fracked Gas Heats the Planet, But Supporters Say It’s a Solution To profit as much as possible from fossil fuels before markets fall under the weight of climate chaos and better alternatives, industry and its allies tell us fracked gas is a climate solution. It’s not. A new study shows it’s as bad as or worse for the climate than other fossil fuels. Cornell... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 12, 2019 Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Although most people with basic education, common sense and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 05, 2019 Yes, We Can Resolve the Climate Crisis There’s no shortage of solutions to the climate crisis. Rapidly developing clean-energy technology, reducing energy consumption and waste, increasing efficiency, reforming agricultural practices and protecting and restoring forests and wetlands all put us on a path to cleaner air, water and soil,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 30, 2019 Climate Change and Biodiversity Should Be Top Headline News When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report in October warning of how quickly we're advancing toward irreversible climate chaos, it led the news—for a day. A massive study in May by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services... Read more |