TMT construction begins Monday 15 July

[HawaiiEV]

I think it was pretty terrible optics when they had the hearing at the hotel with the TMT proponents up high on a stage speaking down the the elders and other cultural practitioners on the floor. On top of the calls of backwards idiots and ignorance that had been happening for years in the background. If you want people to hear your side of a discussion it’s best to treat them as equals and not belittle them constantly behind their back. I think TMT reaped what it sewed and it Likely reflected poorly on the rest of the telescopes and Astronomy on the mountain as a whole. When driving down the street during the protests and counter protests it was hard not to notice one side was a group of almost entirely white people, and the other side was almost entirely indigenous people.