Warren Bell
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About Warren Bell
Warren Bell is a family physician who lives in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. He is Past Founding President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.
Canada is at a crossroads and the Wet’suwet’en are in its crosshairs
The Wet’suwet’en still have access to a pure, clean water supply, unlike so many other Indigenous Nations. Why risk adding them to the list of those burdened with boil water advisories?
The good, the bad and the downright ugly of COVID PPE
What the average person rarely thinks about is the massive impact PPE is having on the already vast waste stream of plastic, particularly in industrialized societies, writes columnist Warren Bell.
The pandemic isn’t really caused by a virus — it's caused by us
Human behaviour is finally on the table as a factor in epidemic coronavirus infection, writes family physician Warren Bell.
How to rebuild after the economic pain from COVID-19? Study Cuba
Whatever one believes about Fidel Castro and his authoritarian regime, the response of his government was to embrace science and intelligent and pragmatic policies for recovery after an economic shock.
Will we embrace the silver lining of COVID-19?
COVID-19 offers humanity a golden opportunity to restructure our relationship with our planet.
COVID-19 has forced us to address who we are
A chain-smoker develops pneumonia and nearly dies — and quits smoking.
An alcoholic is informed by his family they’re leaving — and sobers up.
It is well-recognized that a sudden, unexpected shock — frequently painful — can terminate a long and apparently unshakable pattern of self-destruction.
Yes, you should be wearing a mask when you go outside
It took months, but North American health authorities are finally recommending we cover our faces when we leave the house. And that mask can be homemade.
Without widespread testing, we're just fighting this pandemic blindfolded
We cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected with the coronavirus
Politics and COVID-19 make a lethal mix
The U.S. is doing spectacularly badly in the fight against COVID-19, thanks to its capricious and ill-informed president and its patchwork state-by-state approach.
Greta Thunberg's words speak to larger truths about humanity
A Swedish teenager goes from country to country in Europe, aiming salvos of scientific truth about climate crisis at the world’s recalcitrant political and corporate leaders, most of whom are working very hard to pretend that there is no global climate crisis.