Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

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

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.