From: kim secunda

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Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:21:01 AM

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Testimony for SeaTac Hearing

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From: kim secunda <kimsecunda21@yahoo.com>

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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 traffic-

missing 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