Mit 90 Jahren sagt David Suzuki, er habe alles getan, was er konnte, um die Erde zu schützen, befürchtet jedoch, dass ihm dabei nichts gelungen ist

At this point the only thing that gives me comfort about the state of the natural environment is that once we screw up badly enough to end humanity as we know it, over millions of years the earth will recover without us.

Pretty bleak, I know, but I take comfort in the fact that the world has recovered from mass extinctions in the past and it will do it again after we caused this one.

Done everything, except support nuclear energy.

It only produces obscene amounts of clean energy. Why would any environmentalist support that?

In his defence though, he did live through the time where nuclear was just associated with bombs. While also being of Japanese heritage would also push that association.

He definitely made an impact. For me personally, watching The Nature of Things growing up cemented an appreciation of science and the scientific process relating to discoveries.

He is a national treasure for being an excellent orator for science.

The main issue today is combating disinformation and people regergitating disinformation as misinformation on social media. Graduats from YouTube university with a minor in armchair research and a major in gullability with a blatant anti-science stance.

He made a huge difference but he was never going to save the world because that requires overcoming Greed, which is an impossible task.

He did so much. That said, little bit of main character syndrome there…

He fell short because he is the poster boy for everything that is wrong with the environmental movement.  No one wants to save the environment,  they just want someone else to do it. One of his specials during his Nature of Things years was called A Planet for the Taking which chronicled the many ways human overpopulation impacts fragile ecosystems, and how our lack of humility and respect for the creatures we share the earth with will eventually be our downfall. 

All of this sounds great,  but he had five children during all of this.  Currently owns 8 houses ( I think,  might be more) and has spent decades jet setting around the world ( I’m guessing he doesn’t fly coach very often) enjoying all the high life perks that his fame has afforded him. He is a complete fraud who pretends to care about the environment because it made him gobs of money.  And that’s our failure as a species in a nutshell.  I’m sure if I had his kind of money,  I’d probably own a bunch of houses and fly first class too, as would pretty much anyone. The difference is that I’m not lecturing people about their impact on the earth. 

A single man can only do so much. We need large actions with lots of ma power and intelligence and unfortunately changing our habits is slow

We’ve all fallen short, him included.

In the end, we all got convinced by the powers that be that it was OK to only focus on ourselves and our happiness while ignoring the problems of the future.

We let ourselves accept that infinite growth was a sane and possible idea when it was actually a death cult on a timer that was always going to end in disaster.

Doesn’t he have 5 kids? Owns multiple houses?

The earth is fine. It’s been around 4 plus billion years. The people living on earth that’s different story.

He’s a

Do as I say
Not as I do

Kinda person

I will never reach his carbon footprint even if I live to 150

Hypocrites, the lot of the environmental champions

The dude may have started in earnest, but he’s been too wealthy and out of touch to be a non-hypocritical voice for a long time now.

In the seventies he seemed astute and sincere about his cause. By the mid nineties he had devolved into a hypocritical, angry, old-man activist who probably did more to turn people off his causes.