David Suzuki – The good Doctor isn’t in…

I am not an overly active environmentalist but I do believe in doing my part to lead a healthy and somewhat “green” lifestyle.  I believe in sustainable living and I believe in knowing where my food comes from as much as possible.  I recycle as much as possible and try and reduce my “carbon foot print” as much as possible.Kung Fu has taught me allot about this aspect of my life.  I am much more active now than I have ever been.  However David Suzuki is a hypocrite and lacks humbleness of any kind.  With so many people hanging off his words and his place as a "leader" in the environmental movement, David Suzuki needs to spend some time in our Kwoon.  He would learn a thing or two about ego and humbleness.

As you can tell by now the one thing I have never been of is a fan of David Suzuki.  You can sure tell a lot about a person by the way they respond to being challenged.  Those with courage of conviction and the confidence that comes with real intellect will back their positions and rise to the occasion. Those whose sense of ego is mightier than their strength of character will retreat, resort to insults or not respond altogether.

So when David Suzuki – environmental guru, would-be benevolent dictator and all-around perfect human  – arrived in Ottawa Tuesday evening to tell a church filled with a paying audience what a sustainable future looks like, he shocked his own loyal supporters by aggressively refusing to speak with a Sun News reporter and her cameraman (who’d only arrived after a media release about the event from the Green Party was sent to the national press corps).  David Suzuki didn’t just refuse to speak to the reporter and her camera man. He refused to appear altogether, sending a handful of hostile event organizers to remove them from the premises. They would, eventually, but not before creating a real drama in front of a real audience that exposed the real nature of David Suzuki.

Suzuki never showed his face. The man who believes he leads by example, illuminates inconvenient truths and feels righteously empowered to bring down those he feels do wrong, refuses to be held to account. His critics, he believes, should be silenced.

David Suzuki encourages curiosity, critical thinking, questioning the world around you. Just don’t question him.

Ian Repay
Student of Silent River Kung Fu.
Stony Plain, Alberta.