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Colby Cosh: David Suzuki made his career crying wolf
Maybe he, like all biologists, should have listened more to what economists have to say
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David Suzuki is sad. Just ask him. CBC Radio’s Sunday Magazine was loyally rolling the log last weekend for the former television personality, who observed his 90th birthday on Tuesday — perhaps with some or all of his five children and his double-digit quantum of grandchildren. Suzuki is flogging a new memoir, which some of you will perhaps display on your bookshelves next to 2006’s “David Suzuki: The Autobiography” and 2015’s “Letters to My Grandchildren.” The ecological sage is feeling gloomy about the fate of our planet as he readies to depart: he thinks that despite all his hard work defending the environment, he has fundamentally failed, and the biosphere is now headed irreversibly toward catastrophe.
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Well, that’s what he has said all along, isn’t it? It’s a funny thing: Suzuki is thought of nowadays as primarily a climate-change activist, an important figure in bringing the issue of greenhouse gas emissions to public attention. He can’t be denied credit for this,........