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

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Testimony for SeaTac Hearing
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From: kim secunda 
To: 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