David Suzuki, an 80-year-old, third-generation Japanese-Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. During World War 2, his childhood, he was sent to an internment camp with his family and he grew up to hate himself for being who he was, a Japanese. Over the years, he made himself very well-educated. He earned a B.A. in Biology at the Amherst College in Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. In zoology from the University of Chicago. From 1963 – 2001, he was the professor in the genetics department at UBC. His meaningful background and excellent education shape him into a great individual for an environmental activist. This is how he makes his mark on Canada, making him one of the ‘Greatest Canadians’.
He is best known as the host
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Another fun fact, Suzuki is an author of 52 books. One of his books, “The Legacy”, won the Nautilus Book Award in 2011. All of his works revolve around spreading awareness about how our planet is being damaged and how we can help save the earth. His voice has been so well-heard that he is famous for criticizing the government for their lack of action and protection of the environment. Another one of his great accomplishments is the David Suzuki Foundation which he co-founded in 1990.
This foundation is how David Suzuki leaved his legacy, how he marks his legacy now, and how others will help him continue on his legacy. The foundation’s goal is to “find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that does sustain us.” In order to accomplish this, they must achieve other sub-goals too. Protecting our climate, creating livable communities, establishing environmental rights and justice, transforming the economy, connecting with nature, and building community are all sub-goals that once achieved, will carry out their main
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His lasting legacy is what truly makes him one of the Greatest Canadians, I mean even CBC thinks he is, so he is definitely one of the many Greatest
Wayne Gretzky Not many people can argue that Wayne Gretzky dominated the game every time he stepped on the ice. No player is rewarded the name, "The Great One", for no reason, and he has proven that since his first year in the NHL. Wayne Gretzky is by far, the greatest Canadian hockey player of all time. He holds the record for the most goals, assists, and overall points for both the regular season and the playoffs; he has won over 20 trophies throughout his career, and within his team(s) brought home four Stanley Cup wins, and three Canadian Cup championships.
“Just watch me.”Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau said in 1970. He meant it as he fought to keep Quebec a part of Canada. Not only did he do that, he managed to be prime minister for 16 years, as well as being Canada’s youngest leader at the time. He brought greater civil rights to Canadians, Quebec citizens mainly. His charismatic personality matched his innovative ideas, that enhanced Canada for the better. For his entire political career, not only did Canada watch him, the whole world watched him change the country for the better. He made a radical change to Canada by championing the idea of officially implementing bilingualism. Trudeau was a trailblazer from the moment he was elected.
Mankind has existed for thousands of years and we have evolved to become better than past generations… or did we? We learned to evolve technologically to fight against each another. We learned to evolve intellectually to vote Donald Trump as the US president of 2016. We learn all these things that cause our own destruction, yet we don’t learn to care for the environment around us and respect it. In “Hidden Lessons” by David Suzuki, he explains how children are misguided by the negative views of nature of many people and how children are influenced to fear nature rather than embrace it. While I am not an environmental activist, I strongly agree with David Suzuki’s inner meaning of not just teaching “children to love and respect other life forms”
Look at the civilized, beautiful capital cities in every developed country all around the world which is the central of high fashioned and convenience facility. To live in the city, it seems like the nature surrounding is not important to us anymore. In “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature” David Suzuki presents the connection between human and the nature and how we depend on the surrounding environment. However, within the past century, most of our modern technologies have been developed in order to provide people needs of goods and products (63). Many of the products we made are causing much more harm to the environment than the value that products provide. Technological development has damaged our environment to the point
David Suzuki became popular in 1971, when he started his national broadcasting career with the show “Suzuki on Science”. David Suzuki’s main shows included “A Planet for the Taking” and also “The Nature of Things”. David Suzuki was awarded the “Environmental Programme”, by the United Nations, for his television series “A planet for the Taking”, which was ...
Jared Diamond is born in Boston on 1937. He is a physiologist, ecologist, and a prolific writer. Diamond has published hundreds of articles that is about science. Not only that Diamond is a writer, but he also received his Bachelor’s Degree at Harvard University in 1958 and PHD at Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond is currently working at UCLA as a professor of geography and physiology. He has done many research about ecology and the evolutionary of biology in New Guinea and many other southwest Pacific islands. Diamond has done many projects in his career. He is also a field researcher and director of the World Wildlife Fund. No only he published hundreds of articles, but he also wrote many essay in his life. One of his essay that he shared to the public is called, “The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization.” Diamond wrote this essay on June 2003. The essay that Diamond wrote is about the environment and how it is failing miserably.
Pierre Trudeau is the greatest Canadian of the twentieth century due to the fact that he declared Canada’s independence from Great Britain, he abolished the death penalty, and he created the Official Languages Act, making our nation entirely bilingual.
In conclusion, David Suzuki is an environmental activist, a hero, a scientist, and a Canadian. There are not enough words to describe the heroic efforts of David Suzuki. Society often emphasizes people in sports, politics and media idols. No one focuses on real heroes – the heroes on the front line of today’s issues. The individuals who are making an impact on the betterment of our future, these are the true heroes worth celebrating and supporting.
	Pierre Trudeau will certainly not be forgotten, even after his death. In my opinion he accomplished a lot for Canada but I disliked his crazy ways of politics, to me the way he does things don’t make much sense. Unlike other politicians Pierre Trudeau, had four central themes: the freedom of the individual; the political equality of all individuals; the superiority of rationality; and democracy as the best form of government. What is interesting about these principles is that at various points in his writing Trudeau's value for each one of them compromises and even contradicts his value for one or more of the others. In this way, irony becomes a part of Trudeau's liberalism.
... conservationism. He is inspiration for all of us to see the natural world as a community to which we belong.
In this day of globalization and social media, this has meant that these Native groups are reaching out to the world for support and to educate our political leaders and the populace about environmental concerns. This has resulted in a better understanding of Native spirituality. Groups such as the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers (http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/), Idle No More (http://www.idlenomore.ca/), The Nibi Walk project (nibiwalk.org), The First Peoples Worldwide (http://firstpeoples.org/wp/), and numerous other groups have been created to promote environmental projects, sway political processes, and share the beliefs about why these things are important to Native
The early 1980s in America saw a stark transition of political power – the end term of humanitarian Jimmy Carter, transitioning to eight years of Ronald Reagan. 2 As the global population hit 4.5 billion and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere passed 335 ppm, Reagan responded with cuts left and right to the budget and staff of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).2 Yet in a bumpy, swaying Volkswagen van traveling across the American Southwest desert, three frustrated conservationists discussed their inner drive for change in the environmental movement- a new direction soon to be known as Earth First!.3
Suzuki has said that, “My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else”. So through his television shows and radio programs he tries to teach people this concept of conservation being a necessity for humankind’s survival.
David Suzuki is the founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Their Mission is to protect nature and our quality of living for today and for the future. Their vision is to show Canadians that they are all interconnected with nature.
Fifthly, we can achieve our ideals of obtaining sustainable development and a high quality of life; we will also be able to save the lost “environmentalist” souls from wandering past these ideals.