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David Takayoshi Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

A longtime activist to reverse global climate change, Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, to work "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that does sustain us". The Foundation's priorities are: oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and Suzuki's Nature Challenge. The Foundation also works on ways to help protect the oceans from large oil spills such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Suzuki has also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.

Suzuki was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009. His 2011 book, The Legacy, won the Nautilus Book Award. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 2004, David Suzuki ranked fifth on the list of final nominees in a CBC Television series that asked viewers to select The Greatest Canadian of all time. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. March 1936
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Famous David Suzuki Quotes

“If we humans are good at anything, it’s thinking we’ve got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.”

David Suzuki

“With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.”

David Suzuki

The beauty of wind farms, New Scientist, 20, 2005-04-16, 2007-02-07 http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18624956.400,

“The planet, hell! What about my nuts?”

David Suzuki

Rick and David Suzuki get rescued http://web.archive.org/web/20070124035126/http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/backissues.php?season=4, Rick Mercer Report, Feb 20 2007, in reply to Mercer's attempt to get him to jump into a frozen lake "for the planet".

“[I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.”

David Suzuki

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“We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.”

David Suzuki

What a difference 50 years makes, davidsuzuki.org, 2008-06-27 http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Article_Archives/weekly06270801.asp,

“The question is have we met our match?”

David Suzuki

Fox Tales https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/fox-tales (NOW STREAMING ON CBC GEM)
2018

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