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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,453 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:05 PM 3 hrs ago

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

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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Pacific Northwest scientist David Suzuki fears the climate damage we've caused is now past a grave tipping poiny (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago OP
No doubt Timewas 3 hrs ago #1
We're toast. I feel sorry for younger people whose futures we ruined. surfered 3 hrs ago #2
David Suzuki jfz9580m 3 hrs ago #3
Un-rec. 2naSalit 2 hrs ago #5
That is cool 2naSalit jfz9580m 2 hrs ago #6
Been in the fight... 2naSalit 3 hrs ago #4

jfz9580m

(17,163 posts)
3. David Suzuki
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:37 PM
3 hrs ago

This is him:
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/should-we-be-worried-about-eight-billion-people/

I wish people who live in the global north would not tell those of us who live here in the global south that only consumption in the global north is an ecological or social issue.

Human overpopulation in the global south is an ecological and social issue. I see it every day in my life- the sheer stress and strain caused by an angry and underemployed population pushing more bullshit jobs and driving a race to the bottom.

My home will always be in the global south and I would like people who live in the global north to stop telling us that the imperiled middleclass here (of which I am thankfully still a part) is overprivileged and that human overpopulation here that generates a pool of cheap labor and enough people to harass and bully humans who try to lead lives of dignity here is not an issue.

I despise Beth Amato, Betsy Hartmann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, the parasitic Ben Wrays, Casey Phillips and Jacobin crowd, that closet fundie George Monbiot etc. That Jacobin crowd has the vilest politics of a type of left. These are all people who see other humans a meat for these grinders. That they share with Kochs and parasites of Google, Microsoft etc.
Stephen Emmott is okay.

Don’t live up there and lecture us down here about the how awesome overpopulation in the global south is. It has, in my lifetime alone, reduced this woman’s status to chattel. And it makes it easy for nazis to push a blatantly dishonest discourse that attacks immigrants up there unfairly. These are very uncomfortable topics for immigrants up in the global north because they are trapped between nazis and dishonest liberals. I felt that way when Google etc forced what can only be described as an unscrupulously shameless paradigm so depraved an attack on human dignity that..

Fucking bullshitters speaking in broad specifics mechanically as if the human cost of these things can be reduced to numbers. This model of migration is a cancer on the planet and murderous. Christopher Ketcham is cool. And he is actually left not like these brainless liberals like this silly ass Suzuki.

Every system is under strain where I live and guys like this have a pathological issue with their Dominion Theology based unwillingness to accept that large populations are a strain combined with modernity.

I cannot turn myself into a dictyostelium fruiting body that operates as the parasites and prostitutes of Silicon Valley and our local creepy techies mandate.
Fucking bullshitting twunts..

Errrm sorry Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin..that was unconnected…

I have reached a point of exasperation, disgust and anger at the lies fueling all these corrupt and devastatingly stupid societies as my own home and life and street are encroached into maliciously daily..

Brainless dickheads..humans are a complex species. Inequality is driven by overpopulation.
I cannot believe that by 2026 complex systems sciences and appropriate communication that is not total fucking bullshit have not “emerged” to check this twaddle by people with no stake in anything but who sit around farting about with their views ..
Human life loses its value when it is this overabundant.

God..when I look back at the damage liberals have done by attacking David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Chris Packham etc.

First treat the human already here better without fearmongering about aging societies or blatantly disingenuous concern for the poor like that type of liberal or the cold blooded, callous Marxism of the Jacobin types that treats people like meat just as the right does and the planet as irrelevant except as a giant parking lot.
It is anti-human to deny the strain on every system which results from overpopulation in the global south. And the silent nazis on all sides notice overpopulation and address it as such fascists would consciously or unconsciously whether it is coercion and harassment as a service or other shit.

jfz9580m

(17,163 posts)
6. That is cool 2naSalit
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 PM
2 hrs ago

I prefer an unrec made with honest info over a rec based on wrong info .

2naSalit

(102,568 posts)
4. Been in the fight...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:39 PM
3 hrs ago

For decades myself and it always seem that when we start making progress some fucking shitneck gets elected and not only fuck it all up but takes us backward so that we have to work harder to get back to where we were. And then we find that we can't recover that progress.



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