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David Suzuki: Leading thinkers call for fossil fuel halt
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. (Only India,... -
David Suzuki: Are we too hard on newly arrived plants and animals?
As human activity continues to heat the planet and destroy wildlife habitat, plants and animals are responding based on their genetic makeup and ability to... -
David Suzuki: It’s time to stop logging old-growth forests
Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, or Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life Of Trees, knows there’s a... -
How protecting the planet can prevent pandemics
With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more available, we can breathe a small sigh of relief – through our masks! But we can’t get complacent. This pandemic... -
David Suzuki: Supreme Court puts Canada on right track for carbon pricing
It should be evident that a national government has the authority to set policy regarding nationally important issues. But with the climate crisis, some provincial... -
David Suzuki: We need healthy food systems for a healthy planet
We all have to eat. But the ways in which we grow, harvest, process, transport, prepare and consume food are profoundly affecting everything on the... -
David Suzuki: Connecting to nature is medicine for us and earth
The late urban visionary Jane Jacobs wrote, “Perhaps it will be the city that reawakens our understanding and appreciation of nature, in all its teeming, unpredictable... -
David Suzuki: Easy way out for wildlife conservation isn’t what it appears
H.L. Mencken once wrote that “there is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.” This is often the case with society’s... -
David Suzuki: Lessons in the pandemic’s shadow – how to move past hope to action
As vaccines become available and we emerge from COVID-19’s shadow, we must hang onto insights we’ve gained. We can all appreciate that consistent investments in... -
David Suzuki: Faulty economic thinking makes destroying nature profitable
Everything we need to survive – food, water, air, shelter – comes from nature, of which we are a part. Fuelled by the sun’s energy,... -
David Suzuki: Clearing the air on fossil fuel pollution
Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding increasing climate change impacts. Doing so won’t immediately stop the world from heating, but it will... -
David Suzuki: Indigenous knowledge is often more profound than science
Vlad Tchompalov / Unsplash I was once at the cutting edge of genetics research. The textbook I co-authored was the most widely used in the world. But... -
David Suzuki: Local acts can have global impacts on climate
There’s truth to the saying, “Think globally, act locally.” To resolve a planetary crisis like climate disruption, we need change from the top, but without... -
David Suzuki: Alberta inquiry steps into a past era’s dark denial
That anyone today could deny the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for human-caused climate disruption is shocking. You don’t even need a science background to see... -
David Suzuki: Net zero offers affordable path to climate stability
Another year, another record. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel burning during the pandemic, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest...
