A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.