Actually, the prize David Suzuki actually received is named the “Right Livelihood Award”, but is otherwise known as the “alternative Nobel” prize. Just like Al Gore, David Suzuki has won his award not based on actually accomplishing anything, but merely for “raising awareness” about climate change. Which is sort of like handing out awards for being good in public relations [not that I don't think such awards exist in some corporate retreats and getaways], but not actually achieving anything. Sort of like Barack Obama’s Nobel for “Peace”.
To quote the immortal Sideshow Bob:
Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Perhaps the Nobel committee will start. In the meantime, somebody forgot to tell the city of Calgary that the world is heating up, and that they should follow suit.
On a serious note, Terry Glavin shares with us the story of the person who really should have won the Nobel Peace Prize in the first place:
That would be Dr. Sima Samar, an incredibly courageous Afghan woman who has risked her life for much of the past decade, treating women and girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
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Now 50 years old, she graduated from a Kabul medical school in the middle of the Soviet invasion. She was forced to flee Kabul for a more central part of Afghanistan, where, though barely into her training she began attempting to treat patients against a background of extreme poverty, war, and harassment by the Taliban, who have virtually criminalised the delivery of reproductive health services to women and girls. In an article for the New England Journal of Medicine she describes having “to walk or travel on horseback or by donkey for three or four hours in each direction” to get to a patient, often finding that she had died before she got there.
No, but I think Barack Obama’s 12 days in office easily eclipses these efforts…
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Michael Ignatieff, fresh from his congratulations for Barack Obama’s deserving award, rushes to embrace Mr.Suzuki on the Liberal website.
