12-06-2013, 03:56 AM
What a sad day. Just emboldening the anti-science know nothings. I wonder what crazy non-issue is next. Banning radio waves? Prison for doctors administering vaccines?
Also bizarre in the mayor's letter is the suggestion the big island grass fed beef is somehow protecting the environment. Ranching has destroyed more of the sensitive ecosystems on this island than anything else. Environmentalism means ending this practice and restoring these lands with native plants (drive past Volcano and look mauka to see quite dramatically where there is no rainforest past the fence where cattle graze). Geothermal is the holy grail of clean energy in the rest of the world, but not here where it's considered much worse than burning diesel. Destruction of native plants to allow ranching is an environmental disaster worldwide, but here it is protecting the aina. Sometimes this place makes me feel like the Tea Party is a group of intellectuals in comparison to the thinking of our elected leaders.
Maybe from now on all of our policies should based on what people who claim they can fly think. Would keep things interesting.
Also bizarre in the mayor's letter is the suggestion the big island grass fed beef is somehow protecting the environment. Ranching has destroyed more of the sensitive ecosystems on this island than anything else. Environmentalism means ending this practice and restoring these lands with native plants (drive past Volcano and look mauka to see quite dramatically where there is no rainforest past the fence where cattle graze). Geothermal is the holy grail of clean energy in the rest of the world, but not here where it's considered much worse than burning diesel. Destruction of native plants to allow ranching is an environmental disaster worldwide, but here it is protecting the aina. Sometimes this place makes me feel like the Tea Party is a group of intellectuals in comparison to the thinking of our elected leaders.
Maybe from now on all of our policies should based on what people who claim they can fly think. Would keep things interesting.