SPOTLIGHT: In early June, the University of Alberta will add yet another honorary degree to David Suzuki’s collection of more than two dozen.
BIG PICTURE: When he spoke at a Canadian junior college in 2012, Suzuki declared: “Young people can’t want the next iPad. That’s just not part of the new future” (my italics).
Smaller, humbler living is necessary to prevent environmental collapse, he insisted. Oh, and money isn’t important. Because it doesn’t make us happy.
So said the celebrity who collected a speaking fee of $30,000 from that educational institution on that occasion.
So said the celebrity who owns multiple homes. In 2013, a newspaper estimated that Suzuki’s principal residence in Kitsilano, British Columbia, was worth $8.2 million, while a second house in the same community was worth $1 million. It further reported that:
Suzuki owns a waterfront property on the Quadra Island area off the B.C. coast…complete with boat dock. The property is valued at $1.1 million.
That’s $10 million bucks. Another property, on Nelson Island, is owned jointly by Suzuki and others. According to an explanation on the David Suzuki Foundation website, he bought into it “many years ago with the express purpose of protecting it from development.”
But his portfolio doesn’t end there. As Sheila Gunn Reid explains in this video, Suzuki also owns property in Australia. His autobiography describes how he and his wife purchased an apartment with another couple in 1989 after visiting the Great Barrier Reef.
Last year, the UK’s Guardian, reported that he “owns a house” in the same community, Port Douglas. It’s unclear whether these are one and the same, or are separate holdings.
What isn’t in dispute is that while the David Suzuki Foundation laments that “greenhouse gas emissions from aviation continue to grow” at a time “when we urgently need to reduce our impact,” the great man thinks sacrifices are for other people. Page 202 of his autobiography tells us the apartment “represents our commitment to Australia as a second home.”
Your kid shouldn’t have a new iPad, though. Cuz the planet needs saving.
TOP TAKEAWAY: To quote Gunn Reid: “I might take Suzuki more seriously when he starts living like the threat is real” (2:46).
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Like like Al Bore,Leonardo DiCaprio,Laurie David David Suzuki is another one of those Do as i say not as i do types demands we all live in grass huts have oxcarts ox driven plows live as one with the earth while they live in their castles on the hill in warmth and comfort with others doing all the work while they lay around sipping Champaign and nipping caviar
Great article Donna….
All your articles are excellent.
Thanks.
I hope that CCD has more of your articles.
Five houses, five kids but he does drive a Prius … well sometimes .
Over $10 million in houses .. not bad for a CBC employee .
More proof that environmentalism is religion. Suzuki is High Priest, beyond reproach. He buys property to protect it? Honestly? His brood of 5 kids is righteous because they’re enviro-mentally responsible? Does he recognize arrogance when he preens his goatee in his mirror?
Question for you: What makes him different from the Clintons?
Rex Murphy crucified the warmists and their hypocrisy again this week over at the National Post. I’m guessing that the Post has exclusive rights to his writing, or else his efforts would be posted on CCD.