Comm No 0021.151 - Testimony - CA-7 - PONC fund and Maintenance fund

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Kawa is a place of hope, a place of chance, and a place of opportunity. If you take the 2% land fund away that won't be the case. Sure you may need it to rebuild roads and cars, but what about the land? If you get rid of all of the trees you will be cutting down most of our oxygen sources, you will be taking away the animal's homes, Native Species' homes, you will be taking away Native Species of plants away all together, and for what? To build cars and major urban areas? We already have a ton of cars, and tons of buildings and living spaces, but no one is buying them because of the prices. They're too expensive. You don't have to pay for oxygen if you keep the trees alive, the nature alive. You won't have to spend more money making machinery for proper air, you won't have to spend more money on having to euthanize or facilitate animals, you won't have to spend more money on buying land if you just keep the 2% land fund. Is it really that hard for you to understand? Why is your line of defense "Oh, we already have a little more than half the island under conservation services, we don't need more. "? That way of thinking is stupid. Do you realize that, in the long run, you will be destroying the Island as we know it, or did that small, unimportant fact just not cross your minds? Don't realize that you are creating more pollution do destroy the earth? More pollution means more toxic gases in the air, and news flash, our fresh, clean air comes from the trees you are going to cut down in order to build those civilizations. Did you also notice that if you create more pollution, oils and other toxins will go into our oceans? And if more oils get into the ocean then most of our aquatic life will die? Did you know that if more toxins get into our ocean we won't have most of our food sources? Did you know that what you are doing right now will cause our entire population to die off in a matter of centuries?