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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0771.516 2020-2022 f tici C C)MM.771 From: Setsuko Morinoue §< Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 11:45 AM To: Council Testimony LIOZ {1:14 I t' PM 1& 01 Subject: Bill 167 Bill 167 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION,AS AMENDED),BYADING A NEW ARTICLE RELATING TO PROHIBITION OF NON- MINERAL SUNSCREEN Aloha Chair Ms. David and County Council members, Mahalo Nui Loa for this opportunity to share my thoughts. My name is Setsuko Morinoue and I am in strong support of Bill 167. We often forget that all the forests, the oceans and plains are living harmoniously without humans' disturbances. And they are not separate thing from one another. All living harmoniously. We must observe and lesson-learn from these beautiful Mother Nature. We can not solve any problems separately. we should remind ourselves that the nature as ONE and we are in this nature as a small part. And we should know that we are the one breaking this beautiful harmonious living cycle by introducing unnatural materials to it. I grew up in Japan where the most beautiful shoreline lays from miles, not far from Tokyo. I have such fun and beautiful memories from my youth. But the population grew and the industrial area and cities grew, no question about many problems that humans added to the nature to worsen the quality of living. Streams, rivers carried unwelcomed materials and soon effected the qualities of water in ponds, lakes and ocean around us. Then unwanted bacteria and planktons grew and attracted with their own food chain and now established. This is the new cycle of life which we as humans to be responsible. I won't go into any scientific affect here, since the many of you with much more knowledge and well-spoken for this matter. We should not introduce any more chemical materials which are not only for our water around us, but most importantly not good for our own health, remember we are breathing also through our skin. Another thing, how we protect our beautiful and healthy water, for locals to have real island lifestyles for generations to come, and for the visitors to enjoy SAFE and HEALTHY water, not polluted and sickly water. There are no businesses prosper in such condition. We all will suffer if we would not take care of this kind of important and basic troubles we have locally. How to sustain our healthy AINA and happy LIVINGS? The purpose of this ordinance must to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of humans and the environment. We must go back to study and adopt the ancient Hawaiian Ahupua'a System which is the masterful system for any sustainability we can think of. Thank you very much for your time and hearing my thoughts. Setsuko Morinoue Holualoa, HI Comm. No. 1 ,• �b Ref. o: O)WIC Ref. Date JUN I 5-2w i