Stockholm - David Suzuki of Canada has for many years actively debated the socially responsibility of science, and its relationship with society.
On Tuesday, he was named winner of the honorary 2009 Right Livelihood Award, often known as the 'alternative Nobel prize'.
Born 1936, Suzuki has a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago. Since 1979 he has been anchorman of a science programme on Canadian television that has played a key role in raising awareness about science.
'It is such an important democratic question that the public be informed about natural science because many of the questions about survival today are scientific questions, like biodiversity, like climate change,' Ole von Uexkull, director of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, told the German Press Agency dpa.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
David Suzuki - Canadian communicator on climate change
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