Colby Cosh: David Suzuki made his career crying wolf

2026-03-26 - 10:10

David Suzuki is sad. Just ask him. CBC Radio’s Sunday Magazine was loyally rolling the log last weekend for the former television personality, who observed his 90th birthday on Tuesday — perhaps with some or all of his five children and his double-digit quantum of grandchildren. Suzuki is flogging a new memoir, which some of you will perhaps display on your bookshelves next to 2006’s "David Suzuki: The Autobiography" and 2015’s "Letters to My Grandchildren." The ecological sage is feeling gloomy about the fate of our planet as he readies to depart: he thinks that despite all his hard work defending the environment, he has fundamentally failed, and the biosphere is now headed irreversibly toward catastrophe. Read More