TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge

What about the presence of garbage tossed all around the island? Doesn't that also diminish the sacred nature of the aina, not just in one location but everywhere?

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Exactly. The custom of dumping everything from broken refrigerators to dirty diapers to broken beer bottles along our Puna shoreline is the most baffling behavior I have encountered on the Island. It's very rare to see this on the mainland anymore. If it happens, it's usually done by rednecks, and the land polluted is rarely held sacred (or even remotely scenic) by anybody anymore. It's considered horrible manners.

Even us heathens who don't put much stock in "sacred" things appreciate the natural beauty of the island and would never consider dumping trash. It makes it hard to take "sacred land" talk seriously when such land is routinely treated like a toilet.