We are destroying ourselves by damaging nature
The current way most Americans give thanks is not giving thanks at all. It is a time of gluttony and sloth and waste.
To me, the way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to give thanks to the Native Americans who gave comfort and physical salvation to the European immigrants who sought refuge from their home countries.
What most Americans have failed to learn was that harmony with nature is how the Native Americans succeeded through millennia. We are using technology to destroy nature and its life support systems. We, yes, you and I, are killing our oceans, soils, air, and ourselves through our indiscriminate use of technology.
In Hawaii, we are allowing the use of pesticides and herbicides and genetically modified organisms in the mistaken belief we can use nature in any way we wish.
History tells us that this scheme has never worked. It always ends in catastrophic failure of the societies who use such methods. Our farms fail. Our soil dies. The fisheries die. The people get sicker and sicker. The entire society eventually will fail.
I continue to hope America will awaken and return to sanity. As I look at the reports of environmental destruction and increasing violence and sickness, I know my hope is merely a fool’s fantasy.
America, Hawaii, all of you, please wake up and see that we are destroying ourselves because we are destroying the nature that supports us.
Am I thankful. Yes, I still am thankful. But only a fool cannot see that we are letting big corporations and government destroy the very foundations of our natural support systems.
Please resist those who see only money and power when they look upon consumers and nature.
Tom Beach
Waimea