I'm sorry but I just can't buy into the "David Suzuki" as a fearless leader of the enviromental movement. In his "If you were Prime Minister" tour he along with a host of stars flew across Canada in order to do a look at me tour. Couldn't he have done the same thing over the internet? I have yet to hear any original ideas from him. Any ideas sent to him or his organization are immediately sluffed off with a request to send money so that they can pay the proper people or I guess pay for credits in order to use more. I had Bob Rae's goverment in Ontario making laws about ethanol long before David would listen. I have figured out more answers but noone is listening. I will just sit back and watch your heros as I'm past the point of worry or care. I will continue to do my part but please stop with the blind worship of those that dont deserve it.

In my opinion most environmentalists are hyprocrites. You see preaching conservation &Doom and gloom scenairos will not change the world one bit. Because the root cause of all environmental degradation is consumerism and corporate greed. First you must replace capitalism with a more compassionate idealogy. Secondly the average citizen should emulate the dala lama
or perhaps a sadhu, sufi or other mystic as their lifestyle does not harm the planet.But nobody will ever do this because the truth is materialism rules.
At least for now.

Sorry Bob, but Suzuki didn't fly across the country. He used a bus and purchased offsetting carbon credits to compensate for the travel. You ask, "couldn't he have done the same over the internet"? Possibly, but would it have been as effective? It appears to be your preferred method. Unfortunately, I've never seen or heard of you or your environmental message. You say no one listened? And so your environmental message did not inspire tens of thousands of people like Suzuki's does? Maybe sometimes just sitting in one's basement on an internet soapbox doesn't speak very loudly to enough people. Sometimes you have to get out and do something to inspire people, which David Suzuki has been doing to decades. I'd say that qualifies as a leader.

As for your environmental activism concerning ethanol, it was obviously well intentioned. However, doesn't using ethanol as a fuel result in a net loss in energy? (i.e. requires more total energy to produce it than it delivers). Maybe there was a reason he didn't listen?

You also say you have figured out more answers but since no on is listening (as you say) you will just sit back and watch. People are listening. It takes time. Do you think Suzuki has never had his ideas rejected or ignored? A real leader stays in the battle and trudges on. Seeing as he's been at this for decades...

In my opinion, your broad negative criticism of Suzuki's work and those that are inspired by it (myself included) is doing a disservice to what we all are trying to accomplish; making the world a better place to live.

David Suzuki needs to seriously STOP apologizing for all of us being born. We're here; we're staying. Get over it.
His "What now, little human? What now?" line almost made me cough up a lung.

June, Bob, Gohar
What is the point of going to someone's website who you already dislike/disagree with, and criticizing and complaining?
Much better to spend your time and energy supporting what you do believe in. There's no time to waste criticizing others. Everybody's efforts for positive change are needed. Just do what you believe is right to help planet Earth and forget the rest.

Bob - you say he has no new ideas. You should read "good news for a change" a well researched book that he co wrote. It is full of excellent ideas and very well written. Also "Sacred Balance" is a poignant statement of how delicate and precarious the environment that we take for granted really is.

I also take offense to the idea that environmental activists need to travel across the country on a bicycle and swim to conferences on the other side of the world. The message these people bring - on a plane or a bus - far out weighs the travel carbon cost. The more people like Dr. Suzuki the better. When the pro Nuclear camp offers to have the radio active waste stored under their own couch we can chastise Dr Suzuki for not using a hang glider to cross the pacific.

you can say what you want about david suzuki -- but i really think more people should be looking through the lens of survival like he does -- he's thinking long term and you cant argue with that