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us/Alberta Inquiry Steps into a Past Era's Dark Denial
ByDavid Suzuki
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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 its worsening effects oc...
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us/Opinion: We Owe Greta and the Youth More Than a Nobel Prize
ByDavid Suzuki
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Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of con...
us/Deniers Deflated as Climate Reality Hits Home
ByDavid Suzuki
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Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Although most peopl...
us/Major Health Study Shows Benefits of Combating Climate Change
ByDavid Suzuki
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During the holiday season, people often drink toasts to health. There’s something more we can do to ensure that we and others will enjoy good health now and into the future: combat climate change. ...
us/Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
ByDavid Suzuki
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In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on res...
us/Ocean Warming Study Criticism Shows How the Scientific Method Works
ByDavid Suzuki
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Errors in a recent ocean warming study illustrate global warming’s complexity. They also show the depths to which climate science deniers will stoop to dismiss or downplay evidence for human-caused...
us/Will Energy Efficiency Stall Climate Disruption?
ByDavid Suzuki
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In the race against the increasingly widespread and devastating consequences of climate change, solutions tend to focus on products and technologies. Renewable energy, electric vehicles, biofuels, ...
us/Fake Grassroots Campaigns Deserve Uprooting
ByDavid Suzuki
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AstroTurf looks and feels like grass—in an all-too-perfect way. But it’s not grass. Now the well-known artificial turf’s brand name has taken on a new meaning, referring to purported “grassroots” ...
us/Energy Efficiency and Technology Squeeze the Carbon Bubble
ByDavid Suzuki
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The carbon bubble will burst with or without government action, according to a new study. That will hurt people who invest in fossil fuels. As energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies i...
us/Renewable Energy Isn’t Perfect, But It’s Far Better Than Fossil Fuels
ByDavid Suzuki
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In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists have circulated a dual image purporting to compare a lithium mine with an oilsa...
us/Study Finds Exxon Misled the Public by Withholding Climate Knowledge
ByDavid Suzuki
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Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over millions of years. They’re potent fuels and provide ingredients for valuable products. But th...
us/Nature Offers The Best Defense Against Flooding
ByDavid Suzuki
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Spring flooding in Canada this year upended lives, inundated city streets and swamped houses, prompting calls for sandbags, seawalls and dikes to save communities. Ontario and Quebec's April rainf...
us/Oil and Plastic Are Choking The Planet
ByDavid Suzuki
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People who deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me. When confronted with the obvious damage we’re doing to the biosphere — from climate change to water ...
us/The Grisly Truth about B.C.’s Grizzly Trophy Hunt
ByDavid Suzuki
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Grizzly bears venturing from dens in search of food this spring will face landscapes dominated by mines, roads, pipelines, clearcuts and ever-expanding towns and cities. As in years past, they’ll a...
Facts And Evidence Matter In Confronting Climate Crisis
ByDavid Suzuki
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We recently highlighted the faulty logic of a pseudoscientific argument against addressing climate change: the proposition that because CO2 is necessary for plants, increasing emissions is good for...
us/Faulty Logic Fuels Fossil Fools
ByDavid Suzuki
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Apparently, fossil fuel companies protect watersheds and rivers by removing oil. That’s according to comments on the David Suzuki Foundation Facebook page and elsewhere, including this: “The amount...
It's Been 25 Years Since World's Prominent Scientists Released 'Warning to Humanity'
ByDavid Suzuki
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The longer we delay addressing environmental problems, the more difficult it will be to resolve them. Although we’ve known about climate change and its potential impacts for a long time, and we’re ...
us/Better Discourse For a Kinder World
ByDavid Suzuki
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The U.S. election was a chilling illustration of the atrocious state of public discourse. It doesn’t bode well for a country once admired for leadership in education and science. As public relatio...
us/'World Class' May Not Mean Much When it Comes to Oil Spill Response
ByDavid Suzuki
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In July, a pipeline leak near Maidstone, Saskatchewan, spilled about 250,000 litres of diluted oil sands bitumen into the North Saskatchewan River, killing wildlife and compromising drinking water ...
us/David Suzuki: Heated Debates Ignore An Overheating Planet
ByDavid Suzuki
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Scientists worldwide accept that Earth is warming at an unusually rapid rate, that humans are primarily responsible, mainly by burning fossil fuels, and that the consequences for humanity will be d...

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