Dr. David Suzuki

[yuuteya]

DAVID SUZUKI
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom...e6/224-225.htm
GLADIATORIAL GENETICIST

David Suzuki is Canada's preeminent science broadcaster. He also carries a global reputation as a geneticist, professor, public lecturer, and environmental and civil rights activist.

The dozens of TV and radio series and specials that Suzuki has hosted strike a layman's balance between education and entertainment. He is best known as the long-time moderator of the highly successful CBC TV science magazine show, The Nature of Things, which airs in more than 40 nations. His 1985 series, A Planet for the Taking averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode and earned him a United Nations Environment Program Medal (1988).

Described as "one of the world's most effective popularizers of science, alongside Carl Sagan and Jacques Cousteau," Suzuki has considerable charm and intelligence. His social consciousness is as sharp as his piercing eyes. Jerry Bruckley observed in International Wildlife, "He's passionate, driven, irreverent, brilliant, charismatic, and controversial, and usually in the same sentence."

DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE

Declaration of Interdependence

Five members of the David Suzuki Foundation team wrote the following Declaration of Interdependence in 1992 for the United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2001, Finnish composer Pehr Henrik Nordgren wrote his Symphony no. 6 "Interdependence" based on the declaration, which also served as lyrics to the piece. It was performed for the first time in Sendai, Japan in December, 2001.

This We Know

We are the earth, through the plants and animals that nourish us.
We are the rains and the oceans that flow through our veins.
We are the breath of the forests of the land, and the plants of the sea.
We are human animals, related to all other life as descendants of the firstborn cell.
We share with these kin a common history, written in our genes.
We share a common present, filled with uncertainty.
And we share a common future, as yet untold.
We humans are but one of thirty million species weaving the thin layer of life enveloping the world.
The stability of communities of living things depends upon this diversity.
Linked in that web, we are interconnected -- using, cleansing, sharing and replenishing the fundamental elements of life.
Our home, planet Earth, is finite; all life shares its resources and the energy from the sun, and therefore has limits to growth.
For the first time, we have touched those limits.
When we compromise the air, the water, the soil and the variety of life, we steal from the endless future to serve the fleeting present.

This We Believe

Humans have become so numerous and our tools so powerful that we have driven fellow creatures to extinction, dammed the great rivers, torn down ancient forests, poisoned the earth, rain and wind, and ripped holes in the sky.
Our science has brought pain as well as joy; our comfort is paid for by the suffering of millions.
We are learning from our mistakes, we are mourning our vanished kin, and we now build a new politics of hope.
We respect and uphold the absolute need for clean air, water and soil.
We see that economic activities that benefit the few while shrinking the inheritance of many are wrong.
And since environmental degradation erodes biological capital forever, full ecological and social cost must enter all equations of development.
We are one brief generation in the long march of time; the future is not ours to erase.
So where knowledge is limited, we will remember all those who will walk after us, and err on the side of caution.

This We Resolve

All this that we know and believe must now become the foundation of the way we live.
At this turning point in our relationship with Earth, we work for an evolution: from dominance to partnership; from fragmentation to connection; from insecurity, to interdependence.

About The David Suzuki Foundation

Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, forests and wild lands, climate change and clean energy, and the web of life -the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that help conserve nature.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

About Dr. David Suzuki

David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/..._Suzuki/CV.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki

[hooligan]

Sounds like someone who we can learn a lot from, good post.

[yuuteya]

i saw his tv program in the plane flight to canada, and i thought it was very excellent, so i tried to find out more about him. i found out hes famous to canadian people, but we can also watch his stuff on broadcast satellite tv in other countries, such as discovery channel, and hes done many interesting things with environmental movement. a great role model!

[simayi]

David Suzuki

a.k.a Mr. Miyaki in the Karate Kid movies

[yuuteya]

then maybe one crane kick to the head should do it

[Leinad]

Originally Posted by simayi

David Suzuki

a.k.a Mr. Miyaki in the Karate Kid movies

Guesss what... the Karate Kid's name's my middle name.. no wait.. it's my full name

[CBC guy]

David Suzuki's from my hometown (Vancouver) and he's pretty cool.