34 Facts About David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki was born on March 24,1936 and is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist.

Since the mid-1970s, David Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment.

David Suzuki is best known as host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries.

David Suzuki is well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

David Suzuki has served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.

David Suzuki is a Companion of the Order of Canada.

In 2004, David Suzuki ranked fifth on the list of final nominees in a CBC Television series that asked viewers to select The Greatest Canadian of all time.

David Suzuki has a twin sister named Marcia, as well as two other siblings, Geraldine and Dawn.

David Suzuki was born in 1936 to Setsu Nakamura and Kaoru Carr Suzuki in Vancouver, British Columbia, where his parents were born.

David Suzuki's father had been sent to a labour camp in Solsqua in the Southern Interior region of BC two months earlier.

David Suzuki's sister Dawn was born in the internment camp.

In interviews, David Suzuki has consistently credited his father for having interested him in and sensitized him to nature.

David Suzuki attended Mill Street Elementary School and Grade 9 at Leamington District Secondary School before moving to London, Ontario, where he attended London Central Secondary School.

David Suzuki received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biology in 1958 from Amherst College in Massachusetts where he first developed an interest in genetics, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.

From 1961 to 1962, David Suzuki worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

David Suzuki was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia for almost forty years, from 1963 until his retirement in 2001, and has since been professor emeritus at a university research institute.

David Suzuki began in television on January 10,1971 with the weekly children's show David Suzuki on Science.

Since 1979, David Suzuki has hosted The Nature of Things, a CBC television series that has aired in nearly fifty countries worldwide.

David Suzuki has been a prominent proponent of renewable energy sources and the soft energy path.

David Suzuki was the host of the critically acclaimed 1993 PBS series The Secret of Life.

David Suzuki's 1985 hit series, A Planet for the Taking, averaged more than 1.8 million viewers per episode and earned him a United Nations Environment Programme Medal.

David Suzuki is taking part in an advertisement campaign with the tagline "You have the power", promoting energy conservation through various household alternatives, such as the use of compact fluorescent lightbulbs.

In October 2022, David Suzuki announced his retirement from The Nature of Things series in spring 2023.

David Suzuki is unequivocal that climate change is a very real and pressing problem and that an "overwhelming majority of scientists" now agree that human activity is responsible.

David Suzuki says that despite this growing consensus, many in the public and the media seemed doubtful about the science for many years.

The reason for the confusion about climate change, in David Suzuki's view, was due to a well organized campaign of disinformation about the science involved.

David Suzuki has attracted criticism for maintaining a lifestyle with a substantial carbon footprint while proselytizing against carbon emissions.

David Suzuki would prefer, he says, to appear solely by video conference.

David Suzuki has criticized the discipline of economics for not valuing the environment.

David Suzuki has been criticized for his pseudoscientific beliefs on GMOs.

In 2013, in the French news magazine L'Express, David Suzuki called Canada's immigration policy "disgusting" and insisted that "Canada is full".

David Suzuki suggested that the prisons might be being built so that Stephen Harper can incarcerate environmental activists.

David Suzuki was married to Setsuko Joane Sunahara from 1958 to 1965; the couple had three children.

David Suzuki was criticized by the National Post for owning multiple homes "because he often preaches the virtues of minimalism".