David Suzuki

Birthday: 24 March 1936, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Birth Name: David Takayoshi Suzuki

Height: 163 cm

David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he earned a B.A. at Amherst College (Mass.) in 1958, followed by a PhD in genetics at the University of Chicago in 1961. He was a professor of genetics at the University of British Columbia from 1969 until 1993, when he became an Associate in the University of British Columbia's Sustainable Development Research Institute, while continuing to pursue his international environmental and media work. He has written 32 books, including 15 children's books. He resides in Vancouver, Canada. Show less «

[on the Blue Dot Tour, 2014] I have been in this game for a long time - over fifty years - and over ...Show more »

[on the Blue Dot Tour, 2014] I have been in this game for a long time - over fifty years - and over that time we have won a lot of victories. But we have failed as environmentalists to show people why we are fighting for these issues. Our hope is to galvanize a grass-roots movement about the important things in life. If you don't have air for three minutes you are dead. If you breathe polluted air you are sick. These need to be guaranteed as rights in our constitution. Show less «

[observation, 2013] Environmentalism has failed. Many of the battles we fought thirty or thirty-five...Show more »

[observation, 2013] Environmentalism has failed. Many of the battles we fought thirty or thirty-five years ago, that we celebrated as enormous successes, the same battles have started again. We fundamentally failed to use those battles to shift the paradigm. And that's been the failure of environmentalism. Show less «

Guess who's really embraced the green economy. It's China. Nine out of ten solar panels is made in C...Show more »

Guess who's really embraced the green economy. It's China. Nine out of ten solar panels is made in China. They're building windmills. They're really working on that green economy because they're killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese. Go to Beijing in the winter and it's outrageous people have to live in air like that. They're paying a huge price for their economic growth using that low-grade fossil fuel. Show less «

[on lighting up as part of his role in 'Tora'] I figured if Pierre Berton could roll a joint and smo...Show more »

[on lighting up as part of his role in 'Tora'] I figured if Pierre Berton could roll a joint and smoke it on Rick Mercer's show, I could pretend I was smoking a joint in a small movie. Show less «

[on the global warming controversy] Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in...Show more »

[on the global warming controversy] Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. Show less «

[on the difficulty of getting the discourse to move from the economy to the environment] That's the ...Show more »

[on the difficulty of getting the discourse to move from the economy to the environment] That's the big challenge. The economy has set the frame for too long. I think going for the constitutional amendment really changes the whole thing.. No CEOS, no politician can say, 'I'm not in favor of a clean environment - clear air, clean water, and clean energy'. Show less «

David Suzuki

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