07-27-2015, 06:44 AM
This argument is getting more and more heated as the temperature has been rising all around us. This is not good for our community, our island and is even causing division within families and friends. So who has ideas on how we're going to solve this situation before it gets too ugly? What do you recommend the governor do?
The way I see it the only way to achieve a compromise so that the Hawaiians will allow the TMT to be built at this point is to decommission many more telescopes, but there's just too much money invested for that to realistically happen in the near future.
The best possible solution may be to put it to a vote in November 2016. Very few people have been involved in these decisions, let us all decide. Whatever the people decide is what we live by. It would have to be a Hawaii Island only vote though or else this issue will be decided by one million people on Oahu that can't even see Mauna Kea.
The way I see it the only way to achieve a compromise so that the Hawaiians will allow the TMT to be built at this point is to decommission many more telescopes, but there's just too much money invested for that to realistically happen in the near future.
The best possible solution may be to put it to a vote in November 2016. Very few people have been involved in these decisions, let us all decide. Whatever the people decide is what we live by. It would have to be a Hawaii Island only vote though or else this issue will be decided by one million people on Oahu that can't even see Mauna Kea.