“Environmentalists”

David Suzuki is sad. Just ask him. CBC Radio’s Sunday Magazine was loyally rolling the log last weekend for the former television personality, who observed his 90th birthday on Tuesday — perhaps with some or all of his five children and his double-digit quantum of grandchildren. Suzuki is flogging a new memoir, which some of you will perhaps display on your bookshelves next to 2006’s “David Suzuki: The Autobiography” and 2015’s “Letters to My Grandchildren.” The ecological sage is feeling gloomy about the fate of our planet as he readies to depart: he thinks that despite all his hard work defending the environment, he has fundamentally failed, and the biosphere is now headed irreversibly toward catastrophe.

For decades, David Suzuki has been a familiar face and voice in Canada — known for his rare ability to make complex scientific and environmental issues understandable.

That gift reached millions through The Nature of Things, the iconic CBC television series he began hosting in 1979.

Over time, he became known not only as a scientist and broadcaster, but as a passionate and outspoken environmental advocate — one of the first major public figures to call for urgent action on global warming.

Hey Grok! How many homes does environmentalist David Suzuki own?

… In summary, the most commonly cited figure from detailed reporting is four homes in Canada (with one co-owned), sometimes extended to five including the Australian property. This has been a recurring talking point in debates about his personal carbon footprint versus his public messaging.

In December, the environmental activist group Greenpeace tried to circumvent United States law by appealing to a Dutch court to overturn an American jury’s verdict. Greenpeace was ordered to pay $667 million to Energy Transfer, a pipeline company, after the group tried to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. A trial judge later reduced that amount to $345 million

President Donald Trump’s move to revoke the endangerment finding lit a fire under leaders around the globe, who are lashing out and criticizing the decision to ignore the “scientific backbone” for regulating greenhouse gases.

They scream catastrophe, while overlooking massive coal expansions in the other nations that dwarf America’s emissions. Critics call Trump’s decision a death sentence for the planet, but spare the real giants pumping out pollution without pause.