Twenty years ago we were not awake to passive smoking and you could smoke inside the Tauranga hospital.
Twenty years ago you could dump anything anywhere especially into our rivers and waterways with no regard for the harm it caused to future generations.
Now we are all aware of the poisons we passively inhale when down wind of a durries and the days of the durries are numbered.
The same applies to passive poisonous spray drift that affects us all who are down wind.
Yes there has been a significant step toward best practice in the application of these agri chemicals but the question still remains the same as it did for smoking.
What will we know in 20 years time that we should be awake to now?
T. Kapai, Te Puna.