Tell the real story about today’s climate crisis

As someone who follows local and national news reports, I must tell you I am worried about the recent extreme heat and wildfires raging across the country.

I feel for people who lose their lives and livelihoods to extreme weather, and I’m scared that it’s only a matter of time until it directly hits me and my community.

Seeing headlines in local news outlets covering these climate disasters made me realize that most news stories show no connection between them and their main cause: fossil fuels.

This is dangerous, because many people will continue to refuse to see that longer, hotter and deadlier summers are caused and perpetuated by the disastrous coal, oil and gas projects — and the fossil fuel industry.

The science is clear: the longer we allow coal, oil and gas companies to dig and burn, the worse the impacts of the climate crisis will be.

With every fraction of a degree of warming, we’ll see and suffer more extreme heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes. But the fossil fuel industry continues to ignore these alerts and undermine our chances for a safer future, and CO2 emissions keep rising. We all know this is causing global heating, and resulting in extreme weather events, yet they keep digging, burning and profiting, with zero accountability.

Climate impacts — like the recent heat waves and wildfires — disproportionately affect people and communities who are already marginalized and disadvantaged.

People who did the least to cause the climate crisis suffer the worst from its impacts. They lose livelihoods, hope and worse –their lives — while oil companies continue to hit record profits. This is wrong on so many levels.

Local, regional and national media have an important role to play, and a moral obligation to tell the whole truth.

It’s time to make one thing about extreme weather very clear: it’s not a “crisis” that just happens to us; it’s a crime, and the fossil fuel industry is to blame.

And saying it once isn’t enough. Media has an important job to do to turn the tide of public opinion and help the world avoid the worst of the climate impacts.

Please tell the REAL story about the climate crisis.

SANDRA FORGAN, Kihei

Enjoy the last part of the Declaration of Independence

This portion is the last segment of our Declaration of Independence.

My goal of offering it to readers is an opportunity for all of us to read our Declaration for our knowledge.

An initiation of our beginning government structure will keep us aware of today’s activities of OUR government.

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; That they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

Signed by the 56 representatives of our 13 states.

BONNIE DeROSE, Lahaina

Don’t buy Big Pharma’s vaccination propaganda

Remember when everyone was blaming the unvaccinated for spreading Covid? How that turn out? Countries like New Zealand and Japan have the highest rates of Covid in the world, although they have the highest rates of vaccinated adults and mask compliance in the world.

Quit letting Big Pharma control your mind and body into thinking you need vaccines. Shame on restaurants here in West Maui for firing staff who choose not to put something they didn’t feel comfortable with in their body.

I find it interesting how the same people preaching “my body, my choice” online are some of the same individuals who think everyone should be forced to get a vaccine (that doesn’t even work) to participate in society. Hypocritical? I guess not these days.

The big pharmaceutical corporations do not care about your actual health –they want you sick and in constant fear. Fear equals stress; stress breaks down your immune system. Weak immune system equals dollar signs for these greedy pharmaceuticals.

Take care of yourself. Quit eating junk, stressing about nonsense and stay active.

NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST

The Inflation Reduction Act is a scam inside a scam

It is quite routine to put a few good apples on the top to sell a bag of rotten apples… among the scandalous, that is. Here are the details of this two-layered scam.

Trillions for Climate Change — Socializing the Cost: This is the key problem with the Democrats’ Climate Change agenda. They want to spend trillions and trillions of taxpayer money on Climate Change. Technically, they want to hand out hundreds of billions of our hard-earned taxpayer money to corporations. The question is: why is Biden handing out hundreds of billions of our taxpayer money to corporations?

Who are these corporations that are receiving our billions of taxpayer money? They are private entities, “for-profit” entities, establishment elements, receiving our taxpayer money for free, as handouts.

Why on Earth are we doing this? For windmills, for solar panels or blah-blah-blah … whatever it might be.

You are a routine, every day company — do your business like everyone else does. We invest our money, or we go to the bank to get a loan for our business. We make the product and sell it for some profit.

This is how the world functions. But interestingly, not for Climate Change.

ACTIVE DEMOCRACY