这位老科学家,主要从事的社会活动是生态环境与环保?
David Takayoshi Suzuki,
CCOBC (born March 24, 1936) is a
Japanese Canadian academic,
science broadcaster and
environmental activist. Suzuki earned a
Ph.D in
zoology from the
University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the
University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running
CBC Television science magazine,
The Nature of Things, seen in over forty nations. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.
A long time activist to reverse global
climate change, Suzuki co-founded the
David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, to work "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us." The Foundation's priorities are:
oceans and
sustainable fishing,
climate change and
clean energy,
sustainability, and Suzuki's Nature Challenge. He also served as a director of the
Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982 to 1987.
Suzuki was awarded the
Right Livelihood Award in 2009. His 2011 book,
The Legacy, won the
Nautilus Book Award. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada.