Socialist-biologist-crusader and wannabe climatologist David Suzuki is making a cross-country $300,000+ "dirty diesel bus tour" (with money he "scrimped and saved from his fund years ago") to beat the drum about his cause celebre, global warming.
Anti-capitalist, anti technology and arguably anti-human (as a tree-hugging BC biologist he puts homo sapiens on the same level as say newts and other creatures, we have no right to supremacy) he is everywhere in the (sycophantic leftist) media this past year, and as the enviro-hysteria mounts, a clear and present danger to rational discussion of such issues as climate change (and who or what is responsible if there is indeed climate change), urbanization, consumerism and capitalism itself.
Though it's presently the coldest day in Winnipeg since 1939 at -35 C and even a rather less than sweaty -24C in Ottawa (-35C with the wind chill factor) and though the "weather man" did not accurately forecast this past December's left coast-ish green Christmas in central Canada (let alone what can happen three days from now), the end is nigh according to "Diesel Dave", the Laurie David of Canada. In her Grist.org interview online Mrs Larry David confesses she is
"the first to admit that her mainstream brand of environmentalism does not require sacrificing a Hollywood standard of living. Though she wouldn't be caught dead driving anything with lower gas mileage than a Prius, she offers no apologies for her super-sized house, her extensive wardrobe, or her frequent-flyer lifestyle."
Likewise Suzuki lives the celebrity life, conducting his sermons on the mount, touring like a rock star in his gi-normo bus to promote...walking to work and bicycling through the snow drifts in -35C temps in Winterpig??? Ask 20 Canadians about Kyoto and you'll get 20 answers, all of them wrong or inaccurate. Suzuki sees this ignorance as a golden opportunity to attack capitalism and western consumerism, scare us two legged lamb chops into a stampede and introduce his Utopian "vertical filing cabinet" apartment sheep pens for the new breed of urban animal. If he is the answer to our prayers LET HIM RUN FOR OFFICE AND HAVE THE PEOPLE MAKE A PRONOUNCEMENT ON HIS WORTHINESS. Teenage pronouncements like "buy more local produce" do not resonate when it is -35C unless you're picking a dirty Popsicle out of the (salty) ditch.
Our left coast Saint Suzuki, though he's been cleverly playing partisan politics and diplomatically dirty dancing with unlikely partner Tory pit bull John Baird (the environment minister who succeeded schoolmarm-ish Rona Ambrose in that portfolio), salutes himself and NDP-UN "saint" Stephen Lewis as "two of Canada's leading thinkers." Immodesty aside, they would be better described as two of Canada's loudest self-promoting socialists, perpetual feeders at the public trough and two Tommy Douglas-like ND-Preachers who practice the ultimate penthouse socialist art of "do as I say, not as I do."
When Toyota flew Suzuki in to Ottawa for their promotional Prius hybrid unveiling at the National Museum of Science and Technology in 2003 he was picked up and squired by (always running) Cadillac limousines to and from the airport and nearby Chimo hotel where yes, he took a shower contrary to Al Gore's decree one should only have them every second day. "But I flew in on the Air Canada overnighter!"
Even when he walked to nearby buildings from his limousine at the NMST he did not ask for the Cadillac to be turned off. Air conditioning is a necessity for comfortable celebrities doing photo ops in Ottawa in July, isn't it Dave? He did the TV news spots and said the typical Suzuki-esque sound bite things and flew back to Vancouver the same day. Two national nearly cross-country flights (like Larry David's wife) when the whole thing could have just as easily been accomplished in Vancouver. Was he paid? How much was he paid? What does he think of Toyota's development of its hot new V8 engine, its large SUVs, pickup trucks and its entry into Dubya's Bubbaland of NASCAR? Deathly silence. You couldn't hear him over his Prevost bus if he had anything to say anyway.
Fury and profanity spew easily from his lips when discussing Rona Ambrose or the so-called "skeptics" of the IPCC pronouncements on "climate change." Remember, the IPCC had raucous divisive talks, issued their conclusions about climate change and global warming first and several months from now will backtrack and tell us why they were right and what science if any this press release and "tablets-from-the-mountain" approach is based upon. Conclusion first, evidence later. Pythonesque high farce. Where are Peter Sellers and Slim Pickens when you need them most?
Now Dr. Dave is doing a coast to coast tour in a diesel bus. I haven't read that it's a Toyota NASCAR V8 bus or whether it's a french fry oil enviro-diesel bus but in this age of the Internet and virtual appearances why don't we question whether the gentle Ayatollah of Ethanol should be doing this at all when he could just as easily 'virtually' accomplish it from high atop the ivory tower on Saltspring Island?
Photo ops, self-promotion, ayatollah-like imperiousness, Suzuki has mastered the art to the point to where when one Carleton University professor wrote a less than favourable review of one of his books a few years ago Suzuki pulled his scholarship at the Ottawa university, effectively hurting...innocent students.
Suzuki is one of the principal proponents of the new anti-western Marxism, this enviro-hysteria which childishly suggests we walk or ride our bicycles to work in the coldest country on earth (second only to Russia and Outer Mongolia).
Yeah Dave, every city will have 100 new buildings full of bachelor apartments with 20 people in each one, taking showers every second day, surfing Al Gore's invention the Internet for your daily dose of dull Douglas-isms. Never mind we're all changing jobs if not careers every 1-3 years, we can have some kind of groovy government co-op to help us share the land, man. And my next job in Saskabush? I'll ride across northern Ontario listening to Kathleen Edwards on my Ipod to get to my new vertical filing cabinet hovel.
Dr. Dave is one of those pie in the sky "we can compress 50-100 years of international industrial and societal change into 7-10 years" 12 year olds and the sooner the average person takes a dispassionate look at what he is really suggesting for us and our progeny (and their progeny) the sooner he will be outed as not just an intolerant extremist, a shamelessly self-promoting narcissist and a Utopian enviro-ayatollah but as a hypocrite and unrealistic twit - out of his depth in a field of science he knows nothing about.
He should have taken Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus on tour.
Twenty years ago it was The New Ice Age. Time magazine trumpeted Herpes as the bug that would destroy humanity. The media grabs these tabloid "End of Times" headlines and runs with them. It's AIDS, it's Herpes, it's civil war in Iraq, it's North Korea...It's time for this latest run to run out.
The next Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics in a report by Robert Erlich will show the link between solar resonant thermal diffusion waves and terrestrial climate change. "They give a fairly precise overlay for climatic variations through the past 5,300,000 years and appear to explain the sudden emergence in time of the already-known 'Milkankovich cycle" while eliminating many of the problems previously associated with it. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then why would you have an opinion on global climate change?" (David Warren, Ottawa Citizen Feb. '07)
Suzuki and indeed many of the enviro-chickens have no clue as to the science of or whether there indeed is a global warming threat let alone what we should do or how or when it should be done. That doesn't stop him from his daily appearances in the media (he favours television of course where 'real journalists' have been replaced by mouth breathing models and MuchMusic VJ's because he can suffer no divergence of opinion on this matter, indeed one must licks his boots and purr contentedly as the Marxist Moses mutters to his minions about mutton methane. If you've seen him lose it during a 'debate' he attacks with the alacrity and sophistication of a Ray Emery stick to the face. Ugly. Extreme.
"Sustainable development"...come on Dr. Dave, you're still trying to bring down the west to a bunch of Third World villages. Who will find the solutions to the challenges we face: development of the Third World, conquering cancer, spreading democracy and freedom and wealth and peace?
If we return to the Saltspring Islands hippie communes of the world, will that not entail turning off our computers and TVs and consigning your hypocritical Laurie David rock star tours to the 'ash heap of history?'
Forget the wannabe climatologist self-promotion from this guru of soy and sandals, I'll be watching the Daytona 500 and listening to hear what the 700 horsepower Toyota V8 sounds like. Bet it's louder than his condemnation of Toyota for buying into the meat eating red state Bubba lifestyle and taking direct aim at Detroit's most gas-hogging excessmobiles. Sorry, scratch that, that would be something like a Canadian Prevost bus like you and Dubya both drive. Oops!
This "Used Suzuki" is a Real Lemon.
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