For decades, David Suzuki has been a familiar face and voice in Canada — known for his rare ability to make complex scientific and environmental issues understandable.
That gift reached millions through The Nature of Things, the iconic CBC television series he began hosting in 1979.
Over time, he became known not only as a scientist and broadcaster, but as a passionate and outspoken environmental advocate — one of the first major public figures to call for urgent action on global warming.
He deepened that commitment in 1990 by founding the David Suzuki Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing practical solutions to some of the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges.
The people who grew up learning from him still aren’t in control.
He’s been teaching generations of people who should have ripped control out of the hands of the boomers that destroyed the country and environment for their gain but we are too busy barely getting through the day, by design.
I heard him interviewed on a podcast recently and he just sounded so defeated. It was disheartening, and the host kept trying to steer it to be more positive.
It very much reminded me of the “Don’t Look Up” movie.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Any time I see how the world is falling apart some day I think about that quote.
