We all live downstream

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.