Be a hero, buy local
You know this hero … and you must enlist his or her aid, or not. You always have a choice. Here lies a great person of interest who may, up until this moment, like most heroes, be unaware of their need to save us from peril. This prevalent unpredictability is not war, terrorism, or even gun-related. Mother Earth is alive and constantly expressing herself in the form of lava, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, fire, blood, flood, drought, etc., not to mention man-made disasters.
Life is change and either you’re prepared and thrive or you’re not and won’t. All our ancestors since the beginning, have survived throughout time, through their wisdom, perseverance, and preparedness, so that we can be here, now, perhaps for some real purpose. It is obviously unfortunate that we do not share our forefathers wisdom as of yet. We are unprepared for the inevitable!
Now if you don’t think there is a problem consider this take on “92 percent on sustainability”: Imagine 100 acquaintances of yours, now choose eight you feel should live since we only have enough local food available for eight of 100. Of course those 92 remaining are not going to relinquish all food to the eight you chose, so we actually have 0 percent sustainability.
That is why we need your help to find, enlighten, and enlist our Hawaiian superheroes’ aid, immediately.
All our valiant champion needs to do is, when shopping, buy local first instead of that week-old foreign food from sources experiencing their own climate change problems, rendering them hardly dependable. Save that older, less nutritious food from far away for when all the local goodies are gone.
Your local farmer’s markets have some of the best fresh produce, picked within hours by kamaaina farmers devoted to supplying the best paradise can offer. Homegrown is even “mo’bettah.”
Demand for local food will increase supply — as farmers profit on more volume and less waste, prices will drop, as well as our own carbon footprint.
Saving money and the planet while greatly improving our local economy is great, but the best reason to buy local is for the mana. Mana is what makes these islands special and what your family deserves. This same mana creates kings, presidents, and some of the most beautiful people in the universe, The Heroes. This is what manifested aloha, the same aloha that is needed to save and heal our Mother Earth. Our local hero holds the key.
We need to express to our new-found hero that they have a choice here, either to be the solution or to be the problem. We need to remind them to honor the wishes of all parents who are devoted to teaching their children how to be self-sustaining. Sourcing nearly all our own food from agribusiness thousands of miles away across the biggest ocean in the world is not honoring parents’ wishes for their keiki to be able to survive. California and the Midwest “food bowl” may not be that dependable in the future.
Now the reason we need to commune with your hero presently is because you are essential to locating this VIP. You know this person intimately, the choice is yours, I mean the hero’s. You can bring this hero into the light of salvation or keep stay in the darkness of unsustainability.
We need 1,000 gardens in 1,000 days.
Robert Block
Captain Cook