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Also known as David Takayoshi Suzuki, Dr David Suzuki

Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

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Works
39

Top works

  • Salmon forest
  • Nature-First Cities
  • Other Japan
  • British Columbia
  • Legacy

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Listeners
198
Total plays
1,183

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Quotes

  • [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.
  • More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
  • 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.
  • The planet, hell! What about my nuts?
  • We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.
  • The question is have we met our match?

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Key facts

Born
David Takayoshi Suzuki , ( 1936-03-24 ) March 24, 1936 (age 90) , Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
Education
Amherst College ( BA ), University of Chicago ( PhD )
Spouse s
Setsuko Joane Sunahara ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1965 ) ​ , Tara Elizabeth Cullis ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 ) ​
Children
5, including Severn
Awards
Order of Canada , (OC 1976, CC 2006) UNESCO 's Kalinga Prize (1986) Right Livelihood Award (2009)
Institutions
University of British Columbia
Thesis
Interchromosomal effects on crossing over in Drosophila melanogaster (1961)
Doctoral advisor
Bill Baker
Other academic advisors
Bill Hexter Dan Lindsley

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David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD 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 and narrator 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. 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 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Suzuki also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.

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