God learning tool
Regarding Michael Last’s letter, “Charge God, not Lee,” there is so much I want to say, but in this forum, I can’t do it.
I can recommend a four-part presentation by Andy Stanley called “The Bible for Grown-Ups.” You can find it at YourMove.is website. I strongly suggest, not only Michael Last watch these episodes, but everyone else.
Andy is an animated guy that interjects some humor along with graphics to get his points across clearly.
Dennis Lawson
Kalaoa
Herbicide, 5G news discouraging
I’m so disappointed that Mayor Kim vetoed the herbicide bill.
Go watch the movie “Dark Waters,” in theaters playing here now!
It’s going to be the same with allowing 5G, there are humans that are 4G electro-sensitive and need to live in remote areas so they are not affected by it. How about our insects that pollinate our crops here? If we lose them, then we are really isolated and possibly will not be able to grow our own foods.
Installing cell towers in county parks makes it easier to have 5G emitters installed to blanket the island with microwaves.
Can we please, for ones, not be the Guinea pigs for big companies?
Marlies Lee
Kona
Add user fees for plastic
Mahalo to Bob Johnson for his responsible, proactive approach to avoidable and calamitous use and disposal of plastics.
A complimentary solution for the county and state would be to levy fees on nonessential plastic products commensurate with their true costs to society. Those include damage to human health, the environment and our economy. Beyond critical legislative plastic bans, this tax would help discourage plastic consumption while sending a strong signal to corporations who otherwise have little incentive to use less harmful products and packaging that the world can’t take it anymore.
Fees would help pay for actions and entities necessary for dealing with existing and future plastic waste including landfill space and operation,collection and hauling of trash. Also included, as Mr Johnson suggested, would be the incalculable price to the poisoning of wildlife like our fisheries or damage to nature-and culture-based tourism. Though quantification of human health costs is tricky, scientific evidence shows the existence of known carcinogens in plastics. Since we all pay for already astronomical health care costs, it seems reasonable to require producers and consumers of those products to bear some of society’s extra burden.
Yes, there’d be a lot less blow-up Christmas characters and other holiday throw-aways, but the rewards could be far more beautiful and long-lasting. Instead of cupboards full of plastic wrap and single-use water water bottles, we could celebrate the return of declining native bird populations, honu living free of tumors, and white, gold, and black sand beaches cleared of unnatural and toxic blue and turquoise flecks.
By taking care of our aquifer and nearshore waters as the necessities of life that they are, we might also decrease the need to filter or replace indigenous drinking water in the first place.
Janice Palma-Glennie
Kailua-Kona