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Originally Posted by fanforever1986
What are some of his contributions?
"helped the environment" is not an answer.
The guy lost sight of reality quite some time ago. See ya Dave.
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He had a very successful academic career starting in genetics where he did win several awards for his research and was (and honestly still is) widely repsected. I don't know about later work as it was aimed at different things and he may have fallen into the trap of misinterpreting results because of something you expected but there isn't a researcher I know that hasn't fallen into that trap. A notable Canadian award was the Steacie Award for Researchers under 35. It's a prestigous award that is difficult to receive and pretty much puts at the top of the reserach heap in Canada and Well North America.
He has also been on the executive and councils of several leading scientific societies including president of the Canadian Society of Cell biology.
You may not like his politics, but the one thing he has that 99% of other "tree huggers" don't have is an understanding and appreciation for science and scientific research. You won't catch him with his pants down when it comes to science or pretyt much anything else.
No question one of the greatest Canadians. I hope he enjoys his semi-retirement. It is very well deserved. If everyone achieved even a fraction of what David Suzuki has in his life the world would be incredible.