07-18-2019, 04:25 AM
Hawaiian woman offers her perspective on Mauna Kea, the observatories, and TMT:
I’ve felt ashamed, not for following my passion and pursuing my dreams, but that some Hawaiian people criticized telescopes and TMT for absurd reasons. Many discussed unrelated topics, such as the sovereign status of the Hawaiian kingdom, or chose to ignore facts and pursue a false narrative of genocide, commercialized profit, militant weaponry, pollution and desecration.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/07/tmt-me...is-future/
I’ve felt ashamed, not for following my passion and pursuing my dreams, but that some Hawaiian people criticized telescopes and TMT for absurd reasons. Many discussed unrelated topics, such as the sovereign status of the Hawaiian kingdom, or chose to ignore facts and pursue a false narrative of genocide, commercialized profit, militant weaponry, pollution and desecration.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/07/tmt-me...is-future/
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”