06-22-2009, 08:16 AM
I wouldn't call that trolling.. even though it is an inflammatory subject, it sure is (imho) the right answer to the question of how best to preserve the coast line in the Kapoho area. The right answer in an ideal setting that is. Which is not the case as we see it in reality. Those homes are there.. and the investments, the dreams and goals and all the memories stuff are real as real can be to those that live in them. So a blanket 'we're gonna tear it all down' aint gonna wash. Regardless it IS the right thing to do, if ever man were to agree to play second fiddle to the land and sea. But we all know that aint going to happen. Rocks will have to rain down on us from the heavens before we ever give up our consumption based ways, or our hold on each and every piece of what we got. And then.. in 1974 (during the Kalapana earthquake) the land in the area subsided many feet.. another such event (very likely within a lifetime) will take care of it all anyways.