Facing this momentous election Monday, I’d like to end this series of columns with a plea to elevate the importance of climate policy as presented by the contenders to help us voters decide.

Peterborough is uniquely positioned to know about and act on the ultimate peril in front of humanity now.

We have scholars and activists and students, teachers and writers, editors and householders — all these conscientious people among us, using their brains and observations and even their sad experiences to alert us.

Some of them are even at political head offices writing policy for their party to commit to — policies now seeking approval at the ballot box. That means me; that means my vote.

In these Trumpian times — amid dire threats to the top-of-mind issues of leadership like tariff-coping, layoffs and our Canadian sovereignty — we need to have a country, to work and to eat, and to have a roof over our heads. Perhaps we can only hold two issues in our minds........

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