David Suzuki honorary degree sends bad message about education: economist

A well-known University of Alberta economist is unimpressed David Suzuki is being recognized with an honorary degree. 
Andrew Leach complained on Twitter about Suzuki’s caricatures of economics as a study that ignores the environment. Leach recounted a keynote speech that Suzuki once gave at a conference, where Suzuki gave an anecdote about a lecture of an introductory economics course he attended.
Suzuki then used that lecture as evidence that economists are unconcerned with the envi