Hawaii’s population growth scary
Being that Hawaii is an island chain and not a humongous continent, its population growth for the time period of 2000 to 2010 stood at a staggering 12.3 percent rate, which is alarming. It more than smothered the rest of the American states’ rate of 9.7 percent by a mile for the same time period.
As of 2013, Hawaii’s population stood at around 1.4 million people, which is staggering. No wonder you have traffic jams and escalating crime rates in Hawaii. There’s too many people. If not focused on by the media and government, Hawaii definitely will see stresses on Mother Earth and the socioeconomic sectors of society in so-called paradise. One impact overpopulation will have in Hawaii is on the oh-so-important health care sector.
Overpopulation is a global problem but, especially in Hawaii, it can take its toll on the geographic and socioeconomic sectors of so-called paradise.
It is definitely the time for people to focus and act on the problem of overpopulation in Hawaii.
Dean Nagasako
Honokaa
Leave the weeds where they are
With all this rain we have been having, the top soil is getting washed away and the only thing keeping the soil in place are those terrible weeds. My sister has asked me to get rid of the weeds but now is not the time to do that.
We cannot stop the rain and the flooding but we can protect our own gardens and land from being eroded. Leave those weed where they are and save your top soil.
Colleen Miyose-Wallis
Kailua-Kona