Missed this.
Drudge didn’t, nor have bloggers.
David Suzuki, a well known Canadian scieintist and environmentalist has - not once - but twice suggested out on the university lecture curcuit that government leaders who are not acting on environmental issues should be sent to jail.
The first time was at The University of Toronto a month ago. The second was at McGill. Terry O’Neill, National Post:
…he told a University of Toronto audience last month that the next federal election ought to be about the environment. No problem there. However, as reported by a student newspaper, he then opined that government leaders who aren’t acting quickly enough to save the environment “should go to jail for what they’re not doing right now. What our government is not doing is a criminal act.”
“What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act,” said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
“It’s an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years.”
The first time as his spokesperson says, the average Canadian can chalk up his remark to frustration. The second time, Suzuki comes across as an environmental anarchist, and will find himself publicly dismissed and plastered on The Drudge Report.
Suzuki didn’t get a pass on this one.
There is legal recourse: The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act.
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Personally, I hope Suzuki hit his head on the bottom.
No, that is unkind. Sorry.
While I understand the necessity of protecting our environment and being good stewards of the earth God gave us, I believe that the environmentalists have gone too far overboard.
Look up the word “hyperbole”. Then smack yourself in the head for being a silly literalist.
He’s just countering the “fruit fly scientist” bull that comes from the wrong-side of the “debate”, and grabbing headlines. Hopefully he hasn’t gone senile.
Anyway, remember he did spend time in a government prison based solely on his race, so he has a DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. Why should a kid who happened to be born to the supposedly “wrong” race be punished with imprisonment, but politicians who are destroying the world for dozens to millions of years, get a free pass?
I know it’s hyperbole Robert… as someone most of us respect and admire and as an elder stateman of the environmental movement
it’s a difficult place for him to go.
He’s a master communicator, a very public scientist that has helped bring a generation up to speed, does he need hyperbole?
Hyperbole, I understand.
But is it hyperbole when the tree-huggers refuse to allow a healthy tree to be cut down, even when its roots are destroying the basement and foundations of of a house in the city?
Is it hyperbole when the environmentalists are considering enacting a law that will ban outright the use of all wood-burning stoves and furnaces?
I don’t think so.