Tis the season of Hycane upon us. I acknowledge that people must make a living, however, there must be a better way. We owe it to ourselves and our children and their children to find a better way.
If we continue these methods with these chemicals, we are not making a living rather we are making a killing? My point is that, for the sake of better and quicker profit with the use of these chemicals, are we not poisoning the land and sea long term?
The land can not sustain the continual heavy use of chemicals and will not be able to cope; plants and animals will die, some sooner some later. And everything is connected, and what effects one effects the other.
What I am saying is that we are destroying our future, just for the sake of now. I think I now understand what my mum meant when she would say: 'Don't cut off your nose to spite your face”.

Rangi Ahipene, Omokoroa.