05-01-2025, 12:52 AM
I think it's a good goal to have some minimal level of food production here in Hawaii, along with other industries, if only to be able to survive natural and man-made disasters. But it's not viable in a small farm, manual labor style. We should be investing in solar power and automated farming at scale. There should be sufficient ramp-up time to build facilities and scale up production. Guarantees for private entities on a predictable tax/tariff regime, so no one goes bankrupt when the rules are suddenly changed again.
There are hard things that need to be done, but it matters *how* they are done.
There are hard things that need to be done, but it matters *how* they are done.