Small profit

Have you been walking in the meat section of Pak’nSave, with other customers, seeing the prices and quickly moving on, cracking jokes about the prices?

In Karangahape Rd, Auckland, there is a green grocer called Wing Kee. He has a big sign hanging outside his shop, saying ‘Small profit, big turnover’. I am sure Mr. Wing Kee would be only too happy for Pak’nSave’s meat department to use his motto.

It makes sense to me.

DON CARTER

RD2 Kaitaia

make us free. So we are blessed and have much to be thankful for.

They have left us now, so we step up to be responsible. So no matter who we are or where we come from, we must all realise that the present cultural system is no longer appropriate to the needs of our planet, or its global peoples.

What is really at stake is the lifestyle of the rich and famous, that is us First World countries, at the expense of the rest of the world. It is more than doubtful that the collision between capitol and ecological survival will be resolved other than in favour of her, Mother Earth. We need to recognise that when the time of reckoning comes, as it will, there will be no fathomable problem-solving formula.

How many of natures laws can be violated, for how long, before

there is a problem? Significant. And what constitutes significant, for whom and why? How does one unscramble eggs? How much of the natural world and how many of its life systems can be polluted, exploited, destroyed? Is there a threshold?

How do we know that it hasn’t already been reached? Who does it affect?

Because of these questions, short-term solutions such as pesticide use, chemicals, plastics, nuclear energy, fossil fuel etc- have become long-term problems, like an everexpanding bubble about to burst. By the time we all agree that the bubble theoretically could burst, might burst, will in fact burst, that it’s overdue, beginning to burst, is bursting now.

Baby boomers and Millennials unite. Use our votes and individual influence for her, and

our next little ones. Think long and hard throughout 2019 on behalf of them, as this time around there could be a flood without a dove. So we must stop. Action is needed now. MICHAEL FANENE-BENTLEY

Peria