Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? - - Ezekiel 34:18

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last river has been poisoned, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. - - Cree Native American

We Homo sapiens are rushing headlong in a race to put ourselves at the top of the endangered species list. - - David Bruce Leonard

Things You Can Do To Make Yourself Useful

You mean there is something we can do besides just whine?
Here are a number of possibilities...

IDEA #1:
Big Island: Join Forest Team
(the best thing since sliced ginger)

IDEA #2
Maui: Help at Honokowai

IDEA #3
Nature Conservancy

IDEA #4
Sierra Club

IDEA #5
Reef Check

IDEA #6
Kahea

Or make up your own ideas. Remember: The "Government" and the "Corporations" aren't going to do it... count on it. No one is going to do it except US. When all is said and done, if we're not happy, then we've only ourselves to blame...