David Suzuki
David Suzuki is a well-known Canadian scientist, broadcaster and environmental activist.
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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 |
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Views Thursday, April 11, 2019 Rapid Warming Deserves More Than a Lukewarm Response Another week, another dramatic warning from scientists — met with shrugs all around. This time, a report commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada, “ Canada’s Changing Climate Report ,” warned that this country is warming at roughly twice the global average rate, even more in the North... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2018 Politicians Who Deny Reality Aren’t Fit to Lead So, what was the U.S. president’s reaction to a U.S. scientific report compiled by more than 300 scientists and endorsed by a dozen different agencies, including NASA, NOAA and the defence department, that warned climate change poses a dire threat to the American economy, way of life and human... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 26, 2018 Hot Enough for You? If you follow climate news (and you should), you’ve likely heard of the global warming “hiatus.” In attempts to keep the world hooked on diminishing reserves of polluting fossil fuels, climate science deniers seized on that phenomenon to claim the warming they once argued didn’t exist stopped... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 04, 2018 Cutting Through Polluted Public Discourse “We’re not going to get off fossil fuels overnight!” How many times have you heard that? Over the decades I’ve been hearing it, we’ve increased exploration and development, continued to build infrastructure that locks us in to fossil fuels for years to come, increased greenhouse gas emissions and... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 07, 2017 Nature Offers Solutions to Water Woes and Flood Risks When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defense, transportation, flood control, drinking water and food. After the Spaniards... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 25, 2017 When Times Get Dark, We Must Shine Brighter Are we entering a new Dark Age? Lately it seems so. News reports are enough to make anyone want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers. But it's time to rise and shine. To resolve the crises humanity faces, good people must come together. It's one lesson from Charlottesville, Virginia . It... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 14, 2017 We Can Learn So Much From Nature If you fly over a forest and look down, you'll see every green tree and plant reaching to the heavens to absorb the ultimate energy source: sunlight. What a contrast when you look down on a city or town with its naked roofs, asphalt roads and concrete sidewalks, all ignoring the sun's beneficence!... Read more |