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Evolution biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris, teaches in the MBA program at Chaminade University, Hawaii.
Let this Epidemic Inspire a Thriving Hawai’ian Economy
By Elisabet Sahtouris
Day by day I watch in awe as one tiny new virus strain brings down the whole global economy, and at the same time brings enormous good will in raising the aloha spirit of of caring and sharing in people ordered into isolation from one another. Hawai’i is in so cooperative a mood it is willingly shutting down one of its two major sources of income, tourism, and may ultimately be letting go the other, the military, should peace break out. Remember that the first World War ended with a flu epidemic that so reduced Germany’s fighting power that it surrendered.
This very collapse and threat of further collapse could be Hawaii’s most shining time. What if, realizing the severe threat to our food supply, along with the reduced capacity of unemployed people to buy needed food, our state government offered unemployed workers the paid opportunity to become food growers on all appropriate public lands, dedicating them to growing our self sufficiency in healthy food! Click the link below for complete article.
