Lower Puna: An island and it's future

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Lower Puna will morph into a counter-culture 'off-the-radar' bastion resembling rural N. California in the 1960s. Rather than hate and fear the lava flows, people who remain or migrate here will welcome the lava as a moat from 'civilization' and its meddling. Much of the population will be endeavouring to disengage themselves from the unsustainable civilizations of the developed world doomed to spiral into overpopulation and climate change induced famine, war and social chaos. Communes and self sufficient family farms will proliferate, and all-day trips to stand in long lines outside supermarkets will be replaced by walks or bicycle rides to farmer's markets. Barter of goods, food and labor based upon bonds of friendship and trust will become a form of exchange. Structures people live in will look like something from a science fiction movie in the absence of building codes or an electric grid. There will be little to no police presence, which will be an issue for several years until most of the miscreants have mysteriously not returned from deep sea fishing trips. Peace will reign. Rural roadways will be decorated by people of all races and mixtures of races wearing rainbows of brightly colored clothing, or next to nothing. Women will be treated with respect and will walk the roadways fearlessly. Aloha and Hawaiian traditional culture and language will flourish. All media attention will be shunned because people will fear a massive influx of refugees from the chaos of the mainland if word gets out. Puna will turn in upon itself and become a carefully guarded secret of those seeking to survive the coming bottleneck between the collapse of the present unsustainable era and the birth of the next.

Or maybe things will just muddle along, same as ever. Who knows?

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