Letter: It cannot be right

Rodney Mattheys of Zimbali writes:

We sleep breathing in the sickly-sweet air of burning sugar cane.

What is it doing to our lungs, especially now with Covid-19 affecting lungs?

In the morning I go onto the patio to enjoy a cup of coffee.

But no, first I must clear the soot off the patio and the patio furniture.

Fortunately, the pool water is too chilly to invite a sooty swim.

Finally, I can relax with my cuppa and enjoy the view.

But no, I cannot even see the horizon for brown, hazy mist from the pollution.

Around the world citizens are posting pictures of their pollution free environments (thanks to the virus) but not here in Ballito.

Thanks to financial greed we are subject to the worst air pollution.

No, it cannot be right.

Not in the 21st century.

There have got to be environmental ways of harvesting sugar cane.

Is it not time for the citizens of the North Coast to take a stand?

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