Letters to the Editor

Pandemic result of Earth trying to speak to us?

Could this pandemic be a result of the Earth speaking to us?

We are sick because we have made our planet sick. But instead of allowing healing, we in animal-like fashion, use survival instincts, quick-fix tactics and instant gratification to worm our way into the pocketbook of corporations, institutions and religious systems to leach synthetic counterfeits not meant to flow though our veins.

Since when did diverting millions of gallons of waters daily from our natural rivers become a common norm?

Why was injecting one of the most isolated land masses on the planet with chemicals designed to murder called a "sustainability project."

Why do we import 90 percent of our resources here on the island when it has been shown that these islands were able to feed well over a million people with some of the most nutritiously dense foods in the planet?

Have we lost our soul? Do we not come from the essence of the eternal? Then let us live like it.

Today in Hawaii, we are dealing with this current coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest. It is easy to get distracted with these kinds of political distractions.

What is hard is to see all of humanity worthy of food, water and shelter. And what is most difficult is to do something about it. The doing something about it starts at home.

Samuel Peralta

Kahului