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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:05 PM Tuesday

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 Tuesday OP
No doubt Timewas Tuesday #1
We're toast. I feel sorry for younger people whose futures we ruined. surfered Tuesday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Tuesday #3
Un-rec. 2naSalit Tuesday #5
That is cool 2naSalit jfz9580m Tuesday #6
Been in the fight... 2naSalit Tuesday #4

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jfz9580m

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6. That is cool 2naSalit
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 PM
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I prefer an unrec made with honest info over a rec based on wrong info .

2naSalit

(102,634 posts)
4. Been in the fight...
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 09:39 PM
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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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