Do not let it be lost on you that Lāhainā is so dry because of illegal water diversions by sugar companies in the 1800s that have not been resolved, dispute years of activism to restore. These issues are man made, protected by Corporate & State power. Return Maui’s water now.
11:05 PM · Aug 10, 2023
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And when sugar died, the same companies went into real estate development and tried arguing they need all the water for all the water and sewers for million dollar housing..the kine hardly any Kanaka Maoli could afford. Time to decolonize.
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From get-go. Sandalwood deforestation. Cattle & plantation industry invasive grasses. Divertments & wells drilled, draining water table for servicing resorts tropical plantings & the golf courses. Changed Lā'ahainā (old name) from wetland lō'i agriculture to tinderbox town.
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Back to the present, the disaster is prime material for a environmental catastrophe movie or novel with a message. Nature is not entirely at fault.
To see the Official Explanation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZIDR_iHXFs. You will see a classic exercise of attempting to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.