Water, such a basic quality of life. Here in the Islands it surrounds us and comes with the rain to our acquirers below the surface. Yet, how do we pollute.
Red Hill has been drummed into our consciousness, how could this happen, a trusted government authority placing thousands of gallons of jet fuel, chemicals, pollution, health harming affects into caverns deep into the earth.
What about our State and City departments, the hill above UH Manoa has been devoid of green plants for two years now, just recently with the rains showing light green regeneration from probably some authority spraying the hill to keep people out or some security reason. Yet where does this chemical go.
Our Roads and Parks are kept clean and manageable using chemicals to kill weeds, and keep intersections from being compromised with large weeds and plants.
Our Farmers have grown complacent using chemicals to control their plantings and make a living.
Our homeowners have the right to put chemicals on their land to protect from bugs, and keep the foliage manageable and productive.
All of us use products full of PFAS/forever chemicals, and numerous other chemicals not so forever, in our food, products we buy, medicines we take, and many other sources. Then they are deposited into the trash or flushed down the toilet into the Ocean or into the waterways and land all around the globe.
Till now, the understanding was that this is ok, the world is big, the environment strong and can stand a little bit of pollution. But today the world seems so much smaller. And so many more people with so many more goods to buy, uses, and dispose. Soon to be 10 billion people and demanding the right to have what others have.
So much consumption and then disposal of the pollution, the chemicals, and other pollutants into the environment. The environment that is now so fragile, that we are trying to control this demise.
We need to start now to stop polluting our water, our land, our earth so to live a more sustainable life, that we can live with health, vigor, and cooperation with man, nature, and ecology. Honolulu can do this!
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