Profile of David Suzuki

All articles of David Suzuki

• Speak out for the environment, democracy on June 4
  Canada would be a different place without our 80,000 registered charities dedicated to everything from health to economic policy to the ...
• The fundamental failure of environmentalism
  Over the past 50 years, environmentalists have succeeded in raising awareness, changing logging practices, stopping mega-dams and offshore ...
• Environmental rules should be better, not easier
  Few people would argue against making environmental review processes and regulations more efficient — as long as they’re effective. But changes ...
• Green vision offers cure for plant blindness
  Suddenly the boy stopped and pointed excitedly to the canopy of branches above. “Look papa. Sticks come from trees!” Mentally reconnecting fallen ...
• Gulf of St. Lawrence is important to Canadian identity
  We Canadians love the wilderness. Whether we’re talking to visitors here or people we meet in our travels, our conversations almost always end up ...
• Trawl fishery measures show the value of co-operation
  I’ve been among the vocal critics. But now, thanks to growing consumer demand for sustainable seafood and a willingness of industry and ...
• Religious right’s rejection of science is baffling
  I recall a time when science and scientists were taken seriously, but lately they’ve been getting knocked around, especially in the U.S. and ...
• Dirty fuel should be consigned to the coal bin of...
  It was, and still is, plentiful and cheap. It’s also always been relatively easy to get at, especially if you don’t mind sending kids into mines, ...
• Bicycling helps to make cities cool
  According to the United Nations, 59 per cent of us now live in cities; in developing countries, 81 per cent of people are urbanites. And those ...
• Climate change denial isn’t about science, or even...
  Maybe, as some people have argued, they’re involved in a massive conspiracy to impose a socialist world order. Maybe the money’s just too damn ...
• Weaver study offers fossil fuels warning
  It was inevitable that climate change deniers and some oil industry promoters would misinterpret a study by scientist Andrew Weaver before ...
• Documents strike at heart of denial machine
  Heartland president Joseph Bast wrote: “The release of these documents creates an opportunity for reporters, academics, politicians, and others ...
• They say radical; we say rational
  In Canada, “business as usual” means rapidly increasing oil sands exploitation and selling the bitumen as quickly as possible to anyone who wants ...
• Oil sands, pipeline debates hindered by lack of...
  The ongoing pipeline debates have become mired in conspiracy theories, distractions, and misinformation.Is there nothing we can all agree on?To ...
• What’s so radical about caring for the Earth?
  Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a ...
• Northern Gateway is about profits versus environment
  With hearings underway into the proposed $5.5-billion, dual 1,172-kilometre Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project to transport bitumen from ...
• Resurrecting Eden on the edge of a city
  It will put nature in millions of backyards by establishing Canada’s first urban National Park in the country’s largest urban area. Nestled in ...
• Is a healthy economy good for people?
  In North Carolina, it was police who used pepper spray to subdue shoppers hell-bent on getting deals on electronic gadgets during the biggest ...
• The twisted logic, and ethics, of nature’s opponents
  In a puzzling appeal to anti-American sentiment, some industry supporters claim that U.S. foundations are threatening Canadian policy by donating ...
• Time to banish the D-word
  I understand that. But to me, the D-word is the most obscene. I’m referring to disposable. Let me explain.When I was a boy, we were poor and it ...
• Protest highlights unnatural aspects of economic system
  They wrote to Prof. Gregory Mankiw that the biased nature of his course “perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality ...
• Occupy movement demands fresh thinking — for our...
  In chemistry, diffusion constants, reaction rates and atomic properties set the limits of chemical reactions and types of molecules that can be ...
• Is 7 billion people too many?
  A Western billionaire – maybe a member of the one per cent the Occupy protesters are talking about — will likely say population growth. A lot of ...
• Virus is another sign of failure to protect salmon
  Now that same virus, infectious salmon anemia, has been found in wild salmon from B.C.’s Rivers Inlet.The virus normally affects Atlantic salmon, ...
• A 56-million-year-old lesson in climate change
  Our planet is an ever-changing sphere of wonder and mystery. By studying sediments, ice-core samples, trees, and fossils, scientists have been ...
• Occupy Wall Street reflects increasing frustration
  I’m not the only one unhappy with economic systems based on constant growth and endlessly increasing exploitation of finite resources — systems ...
• Can oil be ethical?
  In his book “Ethical Oil,” Ezra Levant raises an important point about the moral implications of products and activities in the global economy. I ...
• Pimachiowin Aki: Protecting the best of what’s...
  According to a study published several years ago in the journal Science, few places on our planet have been untouched by modern humans. Satellite ...
• Woodland caribou are at a crossroads
  As a nation and a global community, Canada has a history of ignoring environmental crises until it’s all but too late. Many of us remember the ...
• Reality show worth watching
  Most reality TV has little to do with the real world. But here’s an online show that will reflect what is happening in and to our world: 24 Hours ...