(From the Honolulu Weekly Sept 3-9, 2008)

There are now 405 dead zones, covering about 95,000 square miles in coastal waters worldwide, according to an article in Science magazine. And those zones have been doubling every ten years since the 1960's, with the US accounting for a major proportion of this unnatural resource.

Since pollution has already destroyed virtually all life in these waters, there's absolutely no reason why we can't drill for oil or for anything else we want to off our rapidly polluted coasts. What do we have to lose?

Perhaps swimming will have to be curtailed some because of oil slicks, chemical poisons and the like, but the swimmers won't have to worry about sharks or any other sea life. And, anyways, it's far more important for us to have the six months or so of car driving that drilling in dead zones could eventually provide for us.

John A. Broussard, Kamuela