It’s time for us all – and especially for our political leaders – to stop dithering and start working hard to protect the planet for the sake of future generations.

We have entered an era in which children and young people are standing up and stating truths that many of their adult contemporaries either ignore or flatly deny.

Have you received the ballot for B.C.'s referendum on election reform (despite the rotating strike at Canada Post)? Great. Now for the important part — figuring out which voting system you support most. 

A proportional voting system favours voters. It ensures that just about every single vote counts for something: either support for a particular party, or support for a local representative, or both, writes columnist Warren Bell.

As one of the three founders of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, I have a keen interest in preventing environmental degradation, because I know that human health —my over-riding professional focus — is entirely dependent on healthy ecosystems. 

I support proportional representation for B.C., as do a majority of citizens in the province, but there's an aggressive opposition campaign driven by big money and unfounded fears.

“In a democracy, there is room for nonviolent civil disobedience.”

The "black letter" of the law changes all the time. Biological and geophysical realities change, but not in ways that we can control -- unless we are influencing them. Climate change is us, and the protesters against Kinder Morgan are acting on that premise.

British Columbians have a choice this fall.