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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:05 PM Tuesday

Pacific Northwest scientist David Suzuki fears the climate damage we've caused is now past a grave tipping poiny [View all]

The British Columbia hamlet of New Denver sits in the shadow of the Selkirks, alongside beautiful Slocan Lake. But its heritage is where Canadians of Japanese ancestry were interned during World War II.

Among them was a little boy who grew up to be a notable geneticist and his country’s leading environmental activist On a hiking trip some years back, I ran into David Suzuki in New Denver. He was introducing teenage offspring to a place of memories.

David Suzuki is new ninety years old. The renowned geneticist — he studied the fruit fly — has grown increasingly pessimistic about the fate of the Earth. He speaks to the climate extremes afflicting his country — and ours — and we ought to hear him out.

On global warming, Suzuki is the ultimate pessimist. He subscribes to the notion of a “tipping point” from which we have damaged the planet beyond repair.

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https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/03/legendary-pacific-northwest-scientist-david-suzuki-fears-the-climate-damage-weve-caused-is-now-past-a-grave-tipping-point.html

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