““We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they’re going to sit.”
“I love Kitsilano and Vancouver, but there are too many people and too many cars. I think we can have greater density if we made the city much more hostile to cars. The cars have made our city unattractive, and thus I like to spend more of my time in a smaller place at Quanta [ed, Quadra] Island where we also have a home.”
“One of my favourite summer activities is picking wild blueberries with my family at our cabin in northern B.C“
h/t Mike W, who notes – “Last time I checked Quadra Island did not qualify as Northern BC”
The High Priests of Humanity Hating, Gaia Loving, Global Warming Hysteria pushing are allowed to use their “Do as I say, not as I do” card whenever they feel it is appropriate to do so.
Dr. Fruit Fly, The Goreacle, the Paul Krugmans of this world all have carbon footprints the size of Hillary’s thighs or Obama’s ego, but insist us little peons do without.
What else would you expect from the High Priest Class . . . human sacrifices ?
Do as I say, dude, I mean it!
Seriously, the elitists have special mentality.
They feel they stand so far above the mere mortals, that they know what those mortals should do better than anyone else. Considering themselves a few, and the mere mortals too many, they don’t feel they need to follow their own ideas, that they want to force on the mere mortals.
That, in my opinion, sums up the phenomenon of Suzuki, Gore, Soros et al.
Whoa!
aaron @4:16 right on…
They are the deities in their religion.
That’s one of the effects of worshipping the creation instead of The Creator.
Holy toledo, this guy has three houses. Even Al Gore does not have three houses (or does he?)
I am ready to make a committment to global warming.
Once I have my own island, like David Suzuki, my own palatial home like Thomas Friedman, and an executive jet to take me around the world like Al Gore, then I will lecture the generations that follow me to reduce their considerable carbon footprint. And I will buy carbon credits.
Side note from your point after reading his article…
The other thing he won’t tell you in his article is that logging actually creates the conditions for much more berries. You don’t find many berries in a mature forest. He just gripes about herbicides (I’ve not actually heard of herbicides being used a lot in BC woods — does anyone know if this is actually widespread?).
Going up to the clearcuts of Seymour, Grouse, and Cypress is a great late summer ritual around our house. Almost guaranteed to see bears but they’re so busy chomping the berries down they barely give folks a second look.
There’s always time for Glenn Reynolds –
“I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”
the Goracle doesnt need a second home , he has the good ship Carbontootsies. to hide the footprint.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gore-hits-the-waves-with-a-massive-new-houseboat/
100 footer, could park it just outside the docks by Suzukis kitsalano property, tax assessment north of $5 million or up on Quadra
sf: Gore has the mansion in Nashville; if I’m not mistaken, a second home in San Fran close to the Pacific — you know, that ocean that’s supposed to rise twenty feet — and the one-hundred foot long diesel-powered house boat which would be much bigger than many people’s houses.
“How can I force all these idiots into tiny downtown apartments with no parking, so I can have some damn quiet once in a while?”
David Suzuki, to himself.
I don’t know if it’s true, but a past commenter on an SDA Suzuki thread wrote that the property is valued at $5-million for property taxes. Does anyone know if this can be confirmed?
And isn’t it so enviro-friendly to live somewhere that’s only accessible by air or boat.
It’s amazing the crescendo of annoyance that builds within me at each additional sentence of his that I read.
Phantom, funny!
We need pictures? Why is there no pictures?
Suzy gave a tour of one of his residences in the woods. It wasn’t a ‘cottage’ by any stretch of the imagination but alas and alack that was years ago before the BS climate change and I don’t remember what the program was. Didn’t see any neighbours and it looked like old growth.
he lives about a block from the Kitsalano Yacht club. nice digs for a CBCpravda journalist or fruitfly breeder, ( pre DNA sequencing genetics)
anyway , there arent many under 5 million down that street.
and Quadra Island is no slouch for values either, he doesnt own the island.
Gee, I’d like an island or cabin by the lake. Could David Suzuki hook me up with his real estate agent?
What drives me nuts is that all the lefties are well aware of the excesses of hypocrites like Gore and Suzuki but choose to look the other way while being sucked into this megascam.
P.T. Barnum must have lived off leftists.
Vancouver… MORE hostile to cars? What?
BC socialists, they are all air-heads, they complain all the time about the loss of jobs in the forestry sector, then they turn around and say that nobody should cut down a tree.
What they really want is to turn the whole country into a national park so they can work in their public sector job all week and go hiking on the weekend.
What happens to the rest of us, they couldn’t care less, as long as the forests are primordial and the bears don’t kill you.
Being a high priest for the Enviromentalist Religion pays good, real good.
Not so good for regular people who are denied what he takes for granted.
Another con eating tax dollars in a phoney crusade for his goddesss & true god. The dollar.
JMO
David Suzuki’s three luxurious abodes in beautiful BC … Your tax dollars working for him.
clair voyant said “P.T. Barnum must have lived off leftists.”
Another great leftist had a good saying “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it”. Adolf Hitler.
That’s why the people on the left always seem to be way over the top in their statements. They aren’t trying to convince smart people. They are trying to convince stupid people. There’s more of them.
It’s like fishing. Certain bait works for certain fish. The left isn’t looking to catch salmon. Carp can cause much more damage.
andycanuck; all B.C. property assessments are available online…you need the legal address description or street address though.
Nothing’s free…http://www.bcassessment.bc.ca/products/index.asp
Thank you, DaninVan.
The difference between a developer and an environmentalist:
A developer wants to build a cabin in the woods.
An environmentalist already has one.
Garth
Why is it that every time I hear the fruit fly doctor speak I get the feeling I’m listening to a guy who has never had a real job or any working class burdens?
His detachment from the every day realities of middle class Canada is so stark, I have no idea who would take his irrational musing seriously.
Osumashi Kinyobe: “Gee, I’d like an island or cabin by the lake. Could David Suzuki hook me up with his real estate agent?”
… and some cash with which to buy one, seeing as he’s flush mostly on the Canadian taxpayers’ dime?
We should all chip in and create a bounty for anyone that brings in good photos of his houses, he could very well be not visable from the road,especially on Quadra, someone might need a boat or plane or something. Offer enough of a prize and someone will bring in something. Combine that with the property assessments and bobs your uncle.
Sucking his own fumes for so long it seems like oxygen.
At least living on Quadra Island means that he won’t have to associate with any of the little people. You know, those of us who are beyond Hope, and can’t appreciate Vancouver/Victoria’s visions properly (because we’re surrounded by the wrong type of smoke, perhaps).
People like Suzuki think anything beyond Horeshoe Bay is “northern BC”.
I hear he has a place
east of Tattoga lake, near Spatsizi Park in Northern BC. Not sure how he gets there
it is helicopter country though.
there are too many people
Amen my friend!
I’m ashamed to admit it, but once upon a time I actually contributed a small monthly sum to the Suzuki Foundation, until it gradually dawned on me that the guy was a total hypocrite. He simply does not practice what he preaches. I wonder what would happen to the wild blueberry plants if everyone in the greater Van area decided to follow his example and head to Northern BC to pick em? He and so many other environmentalists just don’t seem to fathom that the “do as I say, not as I do” meme is not only aggravating, but downright impossible to undertake.
Anybody else here remember the back-to-the-land hippy commune movement? How long did they last? And that was only a tiny fraction of the population.
Peter Jay @ 4:32, that’s not the only contradiction in logic. You’ll notice after the obligatory swipe at industries such as forestry and oil which, you know, rape the forest, the author then points out that wild blueberries fetch good money in the cities. Well, helloooooo! Without those industries we wouldn’t have the big cities with the oh so trendy people who want to spend big bucks on small buckets of wild fruit. Sheesh. For people who claim to study the inter-relatedness of our environment, they sure seem to have a big gap in their world view.
I wonder why Mr.Fruit Fly is so interested in the cars and people in the environmental heaven he wants but not doing any bitching about the 130 million liters of raw sewage daily that Victoria pumps into the ocean. Guess he can’t make any money off the sewage thing.
As Rob said, I believe his cabin is in the Spatsizi. To get there you have to FLY from Vancouver to Smithers and then FLY into Spatsizi park in a floatplane. pretty big carbon footprint for a few berries.
Eric, don’t forget – you’ll have to own the carbon credit trading company so that you’ll actually be making more money as you buy your carbon credits (just like Al G). 😉
If you’re really curious, just type his address into Google Earth’s search field.
Here’s his address;
https://www.directory.ubc.ca/index.cfm?update=yes&page=personDetail&row=777079765
Looks like a condo to me.
Nice neighborhood but definitely not Shaughnessy.
Those are pretty new condos; there should be Real Estate listings with pics for other units in the same building…I mean if you’re REALLY curious 😉
I need to get a life…http://www.vancouverviews.ca/Properties.php/Details/369#viewdetail
You are all wrong. He meant his other cabin in Northern BC.
By the way, picking blueberries sounds so nice in the summer. He should import more Mexicans and get more damned blueberries! After all who’s going to stop David Suzuki’s Hummer at the border if it’s crammed to the rafters with them?
Like all leftards, they like the illegals to do the work you and I won’t do. Well won’t do for a bucket of KFC anyway, but I’m sure simply the honor of serving such a distinguished estate would qualify for a token seaweed beer in the mix.
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That’s just his sugar shack.
You know for the private lectures with his moon eye’d, star stuck granola groupies.
Bears like blueberries – maybe his family was trying to give him a message.
In the same ‘do as I say” vein, you may have noted that Back to the Future Ed Broadbent is recommending that the ‘new’ Democratic Party attempt to narrow the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots’ by (over)taxing the ‘rich’.
The National Post shows a picture of dear ol’ Ed and Jack the Proletariat Layton sitting in what surely looks like the first class cabin of what is undoubtably Air Canada, on their flight to nowhere.
Knight99; you’re undoubtedly correct…sneaky devil giving out his pied de terre addy in his UBC listing!
Yeah, Ed Broadbent’s really on the side of “the people.”
He’s a graduate of the elite Trinity College, U. of T., along with his fellow-alumni Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff, both champions of “the little guy.”
What IS it with these silver-spoon-in-mouth leftards who always talk the talk of power to the people while living in isolated Rosedale, Forest Hill, High Park splendour, departing the summer heat and craziness of the city for their Muskoka, Haliburton cottages — and leaving the rest of us to brave the mean streets teaming with crazies and ne’er do wells who vote for them and whose “welfare” is being paid for by the blood, sweat, and tears of hardworking, overtaxed Canadians?
I’m HEARTILY tired of being played for a sucker and bled dry by these high falutin’, bleeding-heart, cossetted and feted Rosedale socialists. Canadians’ apathy and acquiescence in this fraudulent charade is getting to be a royal pain in the a**.
No Guff: “The National Post shows a picture of dear ol’ Ed and Jack the Proletariat Layton sitting in what surely looks like the first class cabin of what is undoubtably Air Canada, on their flight to nowhere.”
No guff!
What is it about these go-only-first-class leftards? Do they think the rest of us are blind and can’t see the game they’re playing?
Like his elitist fellow-Trinity College alumni, Michaeal Ignatieff and Bob Rae, Ed Broadbent is quite happy to tax and spend hardworking Canadians’ dollars on the “welfare” of the crazies and ne’er do wells on our cities’ mean streets where the rest of us live … while they jet first-class to destinations of their choice and live far from the madding crowd in their piles in Rosedale, Forest Hill, High Park and weekend at their cottages in Muskoka and Haliburton.
When do Canadians’ apathy and acquiescence end? When does a spirit of I’m-mad-as-H*ll-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-anymore kick in? Peter Finch, where are you when we need you?
I second that batb!
This thread reminds me of the altogether phony and pretentious TVO Earth Hour, “The Agenda” show about two years ago, in candlelight! I imagine it took a whole lot of extra resources to bring that off: one could actually see everybody clearly. (On the other hand, chez nous, my husband and I left lots of lights on.)
At the end of the show—all the panellists were “Rosedale socialists”—Steve Paikin asked his guests, in serious tones, “What do you plan to do to reduce your carbon footprint?” Almost to a person, they gravely responded, “I intend to fly less often.” Now, how many folks would even be in a position to answer like that? And none of the trendy, environmentally concerned, TVO mega consumers, including Steve, recognized the irony and sheer arrogance of this resolution. Vipers and hypocrites!