Earth in grave danger
With the deadly heat waves hitting the tropics throughout Mother Earth and taking precious lives, it is definitely time that human beings stop emissions. That is definitely the truth for each succeeding year record high temperatures are recorded across the globe.
One third of the people on planet Earth already face the deadly heat wave phenomenon and things look rather gloomy if emissions continue to grow. Heat stroke and heat exhaustion are two grave results of these deadly heat waves.
Earth Day should be every day for we’ve got only one planet to live on and it is planet Earth. Human beings can’t keep on wrecking and damaging Mother Earth for the consequences are really detrimental to human life.
Dean Nagasako
Honokaa
Lot of questions for the county
Boy, some people make me wonder. Everything is falling apart in the county from roads to bridges, sewers and more. Yet, there are those who want to spend $18 million on some 16,000 acres of nothing land when the state already owns the coastline, which includes Pohue Beach.
People, get a life. You want to spend that kind of money, go and buy or build a beach area something like Magic Island at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu closer to town. All that has to be done is to blast and excavate a hole along the coast and let nature take care of the rest of it. Or the politicians could just not raise our taxes.
And what’s the scoop with Magic Sands, Laaloa Beach and its lifeguards? I went past on Thursday and I see where the lifeguards have laid a corridor of cones from their guard station to the water that has got to be 30 feet wide and making it off limits to sunbathers. Get real!
Do the guards think that people will not get out of their way should there be need for a rescue? What with the lost beach space taken up by the guard shack and now a restricted corridor, along with all those rocks that I have read are alien to the beach, we end up with some crummy beach. No way like when I was a kid. And what’s with the closed parking lot just sitting with no nothing going on for, what, 3 weeks?
Joe Puhe Magee
Keauhou
One welluva problem
I am writing regarding today’s headline about imminent water rationing in North Kona.
I can understand that each well can have unique characteristics. What I cannot understand is why there is not a backup pump and motor for each well. The backups, if stored properly, are good indefinitely, and ready for use when needed. The cost for eight wells would be $6 million to $7 million up front (based on numbers in article), and a continuing budget line of $1 million to $2 million going forward.
Public water supply is a critical piece of infrastructure. Why is this crisis happening? The cynic in me suspects county payroll priorities, poor planning and the “Hilo” effect.
Richard Johnson
Captain Cook