06-16-2014, 06:23 PM
Pete,
"Are we going to politically foster an anti-science climate on the Big Island? I hope we resist that."
On the whole I don't think the Big Island is anti-science, but there is a very loud minority in Puna (and, admittedly, elsewhere, but not as loud as here). Unfortunately, however, we have a Big Island county council who make decisions for us that are clearly anti-science. If this continues, and we vote or re-vote people into the council who are clearly fruitcakes and want to return to some sort of mediaevalism where everything was apparently better, then I suspect we're in trouble.
"Are we going to politically foster an anti-science climate on the Big Island? I hope we resist that."
On the whole I don't think the Big Island is anti-science, but there is a very loud minority in Puna (and, admittedly, elsewhere, but not as loud as here). Unfortunately, however, we have a Big Island county council who make decisions for us that are clearly anti-science. If this continues, and we vote or re-vote people into the council who are clearly fruitcakes and want to return to some sort of mediaevalism where everything was apparently better, then I suspect we're in trouble.