Minutes Exhibit F
From: kim secunda To: Commission-Public-Records Subject: [EXTERNAL] Fw: Testimony for the Aviation hearing today 10-27-2020 Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:21:01 AM WARNING: External email. Links or attachments may be unsafe. Testimony for SeaTac Hearing ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: kim secundaTo: records@portseattle.org Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 8:56:43 AM PDT Subject: Testimony for the Aviation hearing today 10-27-2020 There was recently a window of time where I had hope for the first time in years Hope that human beings could maybe pull out of the nose dive to doom that we are hell bent on chasing. When the planet halted to stop the virus spread this summer a heavy blanket of sadness and gloom lifted some . The sky changed the quality f light , the birds and the peace and quiet was like a crucial medicine had been attained, Like when a childs fever breaks and the fear is of convulsion and death is passed through, and restfulness arrives. So lets stop the nonsense and do this and stop. The mindset and lifestyles must change the technologies must change and the waste and destructive behaviors must change, we know this and will be acting accordingly,it is the will of the majority of the people to stay alive, be able to breath and look children in the eye with out shame and guilt. We know that airplane fuel is extremely toxic and dangerous to extract and work with. We know that we have NOT been trying t engineer smarter better, Cleaner, ways to do aviation. We Must re think the industry if we expect to survive. Our health has never been worse on this planet. I am gravely concerned at the weak and vuage tone of your approach. I need an explanation as to why you are not taxing fuel for the planes. That makes no sense. Most of all you need to own the legacy of hell that airports subject neighbor residents to, be held accountable for the social injustice inflicted on this population. You need to check yourself so that the growth of your interest does not spill over ad infinitum unto the place and people you occupy. Growth caps and offsets need to be built in. Air quality must be protected Noise must be abated, home value loss , crash zone, crime zone and sprawl and poor transit and city planning must be addressed so the degree of poor quality of life in these throwaway zones is mitigated. The posture of domination needs to be stopped and people need to come first. You fail to do this. If you stop putting yourself at the expense of others you may see how ridiculous your words are. Our culture is changing and the "luxury" of frivolous behaviors will be stopping. It is not a "onward ho'' experience. Shopping and drinking and treating it like a consumer opportunity will be separated out. I worked at SeaTac in the mid 1990s. I took the bus from the Central District. I witnessed the disenfranchisement daily. This same tone is in your attitude. People are not dispensable at the behest of some larger outside force. I and my co workers rarely or never fly, yet we prop up this beast that fails to respect us and sickens us. I say this because it feels like you have no shame and have a tone of entitlement that is perpetuating the deep foundational flaw that some how justifies and expects complicity. If you truly took climate crisis seriously you would be more forthright and this document you wave would have more specifics and more extreme actions on chart. I ask you to reconsider and go back to the drawing board and get serious. Years back I would show documentation,site data talk science and proof. I now know that that does not sway you. I do not know what will, they say that feelings make heart change, it is icky that it will be resorting to shaming, and pointing out that any pleasure or ease that is at the cost of another is immoral. I now live again with in a stones throw of an airport that is strong arming the ''Lower" and polluting and forcing, with impunity, and the structural power bases disinheirent the crash zone people. There are laws against it but we ignore them, actively, usually at the cost of the tax dollar. I had to give up my office due to noise pollution, I watch the wetland get destroyed and money and labor wasted trying to restore the un-restorable. I watch myself contract and polarize more and more. I used to react and apologize, like many this is fomenting into a social decay that will be harder and harder to navigate. Public comment becomes a eulogy. You ignore the science. Cause and effect become more and more distanced as the spin of social engineering clouds societal norms. Even if and when the people take up the burden of protecting and self defense we are stepped on to the point that this whole process has, over the years become a joke. A weak plan like this is put forth as if it is acceptable. That is how decayed we are. I am really worried. I know the math - It goes like this- Airplane--->Extraction industry = land theft= resident and worker exploitation -> habitat and water destruction, man camps= sex and drug trafficmissing and murdered indigenous women and girls= fear and despair, suicide and rage. AKA as Some lives Matter more than others. this is the model behind your day. You need to start over. But, This summer- there was a moment where planes here did not fly for no good reason. This is a big part of what needs to happen. We need to start over not patch the same broken tool. Until you find a cleaner way, understand that self sufficiency, carrying capacity, social justice, good health and peace of mind are the real values in play here and that my children are not courting dominance and arrogance chasing a death wish. We will all suffer some more than others here as the supply chain decays. Some of us are better at suffering than others, maybe this will be the way we can come to some more common ground. Essential will be redefined. Clean air and water are essential. What flights are essential ? Can you answer this ? Then if you seriously re engineer flight there may be a future sky that is like a Summer 2020 sky. First you need to fully own your debt, prioritize, stop fouling the nest repair the damages to humans and water and people. Spell that out. Act on it. Your fuel is the worst. What are you doing about it ? I appeal to you to start over, and hold up to you the United Nations Declaration of Human, Women, Children, and Indigenous rights. Social Justice matters I remind you that Water is life. You are destroying these things right here a stones throw from me in the Orcas island flyway, you do so there in the territory of SeaTac, and you do so on all the lands you destroy to feed your planes. Remember everything is connected. Act accordingly and efforts to address the crisis will be serious. I cannot take anything you say here seriously when it is so weak and disconnected. Remember everything is connected. Act accordingly and efforts to address the crisis will be serious. I have watched the orca and salmon runs die, there are rarely any birds flocking here anymore and our beach is a lump of plastic. We have suicide, addiction, illness, poverty, divorce, homelessness, hunger, all in a 1 mile radius of a small island airport, not different from the long bus ride to work at your airport. Seriously, Kim Secunda Kim
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