Levelling the Energy Playing Field is a Climate Necessity
Too many people are consuming more than Earth’s systems can replenish. But while population growth…
Browsing: David Suzuki
Don’t Buy Big Oil’s lies. Scorching Climate Records Call For Real Solutions
On July 6, the world’s average temperature was the hottest ever recorded, at 17.23 C. That…
Most People Want Climate Action. We Need to Speak Up
If you understand that the climate crisis is a serious challenge and believe governments, industry…
There’s No Time Left to Waste in Addressing the Climate Crisis
In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It…
How Do We Insure Against Climate Catastrophe?
The world is on fire. Sometimes it seems not enough people care. We’re still electing…
People Power Achieves Right to a Healthy Environment in Canada
Nine years ago, the David Suzuki Foundation launched the Blue Dot Movement. Its goal was to…
More Than an Energy Shift, We Need a Paradigm Shift
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
Clean Energy Transition sparks Nuclear Reaction
As the impacts of climate disruption become more frequent and intense, we need a range…
Emissions Inventory Shows Canada Must Rein in Oil and Gas
Canada’s recent greenhouse gas inventory shows climate policies are working — but we still face…
Chart Shows Affordable Ways to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to keep the world from heating to catastrophic levels is entirely…
It’s Better to be Woke Than to Sleepwalk Through Life
How can a bank for wealthy venture capitalists, tech bros and people such as ultraconservative billionaire…
Flower Power: Canoe Gardens Seed an International Movement
We can all help bring nature home to our neighbourhoods. This story begins with a…
Digging Into the Mining Impacts of Renewable Energy
People who oppose the transition from polluting, climate-altering fossil fuel energy to cleaner, renewable energy…
Why Do Corporations Exist?
In many countries — most notably the U.S. — corporations are considered “persons” under law, enjoying many…
House of Commons Must Make Passing Bill S-5 a Priority
Long-awaited bill to update Canadian Environmental Protection Act faces final MP vote. OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL,…
Solutions to Climate Crisis Exist, But We Need the Will to Change
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
Climate Crisis? Who knew? Turns Out the Oil Industry Did
By now, anyone paying attention knows that burning coal, oil and gas has created a…
Fossil Gas is not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Cooking with gas has some advantages over cooking on conventional electric stoves, as gas stoves…
The Sacred Balance: Learning from Indigenous Peoples
The following is adapted from the prologue to the 25th anniversary edition of The Sacred Balance:…
Should We Be Worried About Eight Billion People?
The human population just reached eight billion! Does it matter? Our numbers have quadrupled in…
Biodiversity Summit Offers Host Country Canada a Chance to Step Up
As the 27th UN climate conference of the parties (COP27) wraps up, we can’t lose…
It’s Time to Extinguish Oil and Gas Industry “Gaslighting”
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Trees Help Cities Tackle Climate Crisis and Inequality
Environmental racism or discrimination can take many forms. It can mean building polluting factories or mines…
Canada Can’t Let Industry and Provinces Stall Carbon Pricing
In Canada and many places worldwide, those who pollute the atmosphere must pay. By putting…
For Healthy Habitats, Leave it to the Beavers and Other Animal Engineers
Beavers have long been considered nuisances. They knock down trees and block waterways, often flooding…
Everything Matters in an Interconnected World
Researchers only began to understand the “diel migration” a few decades ago. It’s “the largest…
Despite Record Profits and Prices, Oil Industry Greed is a Bottomless Pit
Canada offers some of the world’s most generous support for the fossil fuel industry, but industry…
Canada’s Plastics Ban is a Necessary First Step
Most of us have seen images of sea turtles malformed by plastic six-pack rings, dead…
People Suffer as Climate Disrupters Rake in Massive Profits
The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a…
We Can’t Look Away From Our Overheating World
Near the end of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns…
Should We Be Working 15-hour Weeks?
The five-day workweek is an anachronistic relic of a time when conditions were far different…
Fossil Gas Isn’t Natural, and it’s Not a Climate Solution
The fossil fuel industry has employed many strategies over the years to keep money flowing.…
Will the World Again Hit “Snooze” on Latest Climate Alarm?
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
Fossil Fuel Funding is an Investment in Disaster
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment shows the world is unnecessarily headed toward climate catastrophe,…
Education Should Include Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom
When I was a boy, my father’s biggest threat was not physical punishment, but pulling…
SUVs are Driving Us Toward Climate Calamity
When bumper-to-bumper traffic chokes roads and SUVs fill urban parking lots, we can’t say we’re…
New Climate Report Shows Urgent Need to Adapt and Change
The longer we put off seriously addressing climate disruption’s causes, the more we’ll have to…
Is There a Rational Argument Against Climate Action?
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
Rest is Good, But Resolving Global Crises Means Not Looking Away
When people do things they shouldn’t, they often try to distract attention from their actions. Guardian writer…
Everything Under the Sun
As light slowly returns to the Northern Hemisphere, we anticipate brighter days ahead. It’s a…
If Our Stories Set Us Apart, We Need to Create New Ones
According to philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari, “Homo sapiens conquered this planet thanks above all to the unique…
We Have to Stop Squandering our Brief Time on Earth
The planet and its miraculous nature will go on with or without us. After all,…
Big, Small or in Between, Wild Animals Should Not be Pets
Most of us believe wild animals such as tigers and wolves shouldn’t be kept in…
It Will Take More Than Electric Cars to Drive Down Emissions
Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about…