Taming Ma’ Nature tough task
I read the letter that Mr. Apothaker wrote about harnessing the lava. All too often I have seen people try to divert and control rivers, roadways and walls to divert or keep waves and water from encroaching on their property to no avail. We cannot filter Mother Nature and eventually Mother Nature will win every time.
It’s a good theory if it does work and more power to anyone who tries, after all, mankind has always tried to find ways around nature and to control it.
Colleen Miyose-Wallis
Kailua-Kona
Fake views
After the newspaper (the one you vehemently chastise for printing opinions opposite from your own) prints your opinion, are you still going to complain that it only prints one side of the debate?
Linda Gross
Kailua-Kona
Stories to ponder
Lately there have been a few articles of interest in the WHT that one might want to give thought to:
1) The debris floating in our oceans and what to do about it. First off, it is a world problem and one that the United Nations should step up to the plate and rectify. One method that bears thought is de-mothballing mothballed vessels and converting them into a purse seiner sort of vessel capable of surrounding the debris and hauling the junk aboard much as is done when purse seining for tuna. Then maybe find an active volcano, other than in Hawaii, or a Grand Canyon in China (isn’t China the biggest contributor to this mess?) to dump the junk in.
2) The WHT article June 22, on the timeline extension for the Alii development seems to be the old story of putting the cart before the horse. As with that Kamehameha Schools planned development at Kahaluu that went down the drain, thanks to good citizens like Simi McMichael. The road to progress is through infrastructure. So, where is the infrastructure for such a needed venture? Our political joes all have their heads in the sand when it comes to infrastructure. Hell, they all turn and run when one mentions something like the Alii bypass road that would benefit all of us. All because of some bones that just happen to lay in the path of the much needed bypass and that have been made hookapu.
3) Honolulu has just enacted a law that will undoubtedly find its way to the County of Hawaii concerning bikers. It states that the driver of a vehicle is to be responsible with staying 3 feet away from any biker in a bike lane. That is, simply put, ridiculously absurd. As if drivers do not have enough to be watchfully aware of. The law should read that it is the bikers responsibility to keep 3 feet away from any vehicle. Hell, my experience with bikers is that most of the time they are the ones encroaching into the vehicle’s path.
Hugo von Platen Luder
Holualoa