With the world facing ever-growing negative consequences of burning fossil fuels, we must weigh our options. In doing so, wind power comes out ahead. However, a backlash has been growing in many places where wind power is being developed.

Let's stop wasting our time on deniers. It would be better spent trying to resolve the serious problems we have created.

The real solutions to climate change lie with conservation and renewable energy, but because natural gas will be with us for the foreseeable future, we must do all we can to clean up practices associated with it.

For 32 years, my family has looked forward to our annual trip toward the Okanagan Valley to pick cherries. Now, much of that land has been converted to accommodate big houses. We have to make sure we don't sacrifice the very things that made a community attractive in the first place.