In Australia, where it’s already Wednesday, David Suzuki is yesterday:
(He) is not an elder or a sage of science. He is an environmental extremist, a relic of the 1970s. He may not wear the bandana and John Lennon glasses of his youth but inside still beats the heart of an anti-capitalist hippy.
A piece of footage doing the rounds of social media this week shows a young Suzuki in 1972 sitting cross legged on the ground, describing humans as “maggots” that “defecate all over the environment”.
Almost half a century later, nothing much has changed.
It’s true. Maybe Canadian taxpayers should chip in to send the Socrates of the North abroad more often:
Suzuki’s appearance on the ABC flagship program Q&A spelled the death of any credibility left in the fag end of the climate alarm movement.
Read Miranda Devine’s “David Suzuki drives me crazy” here, and more of her Daily Telegraph columns (she also writes for the Herald Sun) here.
I haven’t read much Devine, but I check out Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair every day for my Aussie news.
Glad to see Dr. Fruitfly being outed as the fraud he is. I remember thinking he was an idiot after seeing him speak in the 1970’s. The only thing I’m wondering is what drugs the people listening to him pontificate about maggots were on? I would have called out his BS back then but it seems that those around him just lapped it all up being quite content to bask in the radiance of his greatness. The potency of the cannabis in the 1960’s was a fraction of what it is now and, being on the west coast, hashish wasn’t a big thing there.
That maggot talk of his will hopefully go viral in Australia so that people can appreciate the level of intelligence he brings to a debate and his hatred of people (except of course for appropriately endowed female “bodyguards”).
Gosh, I wish another country would just keep him.
Thank God for Australia. Let’s hope some of that common sense from the new PM rubs off on ours. And I am loving seeing Suzuki’s cred go down the drain.
I’m loving it too. I greatly enjoyed Devine’s column not just because it’s well-written and entertaining, but because it exists. Suzuki is the most misanthropic public figure that I’m aware of, and what makes it worse is that he attempts to disguise it (when he’s propagandizing on the CBC) with a condescending, almost obsequious Father Christmas tone.
Al Gore, in comparison, is a bloated egotist with a fat wallet who likes to think of himself as a hero, and facts are certainly inconvenient for him in his endeavour, but Suzuki is a hateful man whenever his mask falls away. He clearly despises all the “maggots” who aren’t him, and (presumably) his family and his fawning acolytes.
(Btw, I enjoyed your contribution to Ezra’s Twitter exchange with Brett Butt a couple of days ago.)
The more I see of David Suzuki, the more I think that the Communist Broadcast Corp didn’t hire him for his brains so much as the fact that he was, and still is, a visible minority lefty activist.
He should take his Malthusian views for a walk on an ice flow if he’s so worried about resource exhaustion and overpopulation.
Oops. That should be ‘ice floe’.
Well Dave must be wondering “where the hell am I?”
He has never had to face a tough question from our fawning Canadian media so it has to be quite a shock for the old snake oil specialist.
I hope so also. I have to agree with EBD that you made an excellent contribution to Ezra’s twitter exchange.
EBD, you describe Suzuki and Gore very well, and Miranda had a great column.
Just to play devil’s advocate here, but presumably a geneticist with a specialty in fruit flies is very familiar with the life cycle of the fly. If the only tool one has is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; he could conceivably have been using the drosophila equivalent of the caterpillar-to-butterfly analogy, and comparing humans of today with whatever we eventually evolve into. He would have been spending a lot of time around other fruit-fly geneticists before he got The Nature Of Things gig.
I admit it is a stretch, but in fairness there exists a possibility that his remark was taken out of a benign context. A small possibility, but I’m sure I’ve said things that could be taken wildly out of context 4 decades from now.
(two minutes later)
Having written that, I went and looked at the video. I can see that it was cut off before he continued that metamorphosis analogy to its logical conclusion – or before it veered off into some illogical direction. What I considered a small possibility before watching the video, I now consider to actually be the case – his remarks back in the 70s are indeed being taken out of context.
If the Right doesn’t like it when a Reagan or Breitbart or Limbaugh or Romney is demonized, we should take care that we don’t demonize the misguided fools of the Left.
But wait,there’s more;
” This free resource is filled with fun activities that get kids outside exploring issues like biodiversity, energy conservation and food production. Available in both French and English, it’s perfect for classroom teachers, community educators and anyone who wants to inspire children with the wonders of nature.”
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/connecting-youth-with-nature/#teachers-tab
I signed up. You should too,especially if you have a child being ‘educated’.
It took the Australians minutes to see what we should have years ago. We should be ashamed as a nation to have such a self-important “elder”.
Suzuki is a mentally repulsive little man who has been on the public teat his entire life. A legend in his own mind and a following of mental midgets that question nothing, as in the following:
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/hussan/2013/07/open-letter-to-david-suzuki-canadas-immigration-policy-disgusting-not-
It’s a cult of brainwashed eco nuts that only a frontal lobotomy could hope to cure. The most frightening aspect is that these people breed. None of them seem to be employed (except by the CBC ), but they breed. The fact that Suzuki knows nothing about global (not) warming would not even register on his adoring fans just as Gore has not been held to account for all the BS in his “Inconvenient Truth”. These people are still revered as saints where in reality they belong in jail along with all members of the IPCC for the damage they have done to the world economy. De-funding the CBC should be the first step on the road back to sanity, but that would take real leadership. Sadly missing.
Most of us knew he was a fraud long ago and the rest who didn’t see through this chalatans traveling salvation show, after this twit forgot about genetics and flies, well those ones have a bigger problem. The worst part of this fraud has been the looted treasuries of the western world, our countries are broke sitting ducks if China or Russia get beligerent, there is no more money, scam artists and grifters like Gore and Suzookie have used their podiums to sway Gumby style politicians and media fools to beleive in glowball warming. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, just believe in the great Suzooze. Please Australia keep this dick long enough to introduce him to the salties up north.
suzuki was a product created and financed by the CBC, nothing more
The Aussies “get it” where climate hysteria tax gouging is concerned. They made the connection between the fraudulent science, climate alarmism and political opportunism and the subsequent climate racketeering shake down of the public purse. They learned the hard way – I suspect all those years of being ripped off by preditory politicians and carbon profiteers using AGW hysteria for cover, made having a bit of sport deflating an AGW gas bag like Soozook a pleasant outlet for their anger at being conned.
I want to see footage of the god of the fruit flies being publicly dressed down on Kanukistan TV – naaa, no truth ever penetrate the CRTC’s maple curtain.
Dare to dream, Occam. Dare to dream.
Canadians have been told to revere people like Suzuki even though there is nothing worth listening to or caring about. The Australians have seen it. Put these Canadian “icons” in the deep end of the intellectual pool and watch them drown.