Media hardly talks about the negatives of development
It seems to me that popular media in Hawaii (so-called paradise) is quick to talk of the positives about construction developments and hardly about the negatives of it. In this day and age when global warming, climate change and longer summers are a reality, hardly anything about conservation is talked about in popular media which I feel is suicidal. Sewage spills, escalating crime rates and traffic problems just to name a few nuances due to mankind’s lack of foresight and common sense take place daily in what I call “paradise lost.”
This especially relates to the enterprise zones proposed for the Big Island. Besides giving corporate America literally a free pass to damage Hawaii Island’s fragile ecosystems, it also opens the way to problems such as concrete jungles, more homelessness, traffic jams and escalating crime rates on the Big Island, which is really the last frontier in the Hawaiian Island chain.
Longer summers are both scary and uncomfortable. The negatives of construction developments and conservation have to come to the forefront in popular media. Already more than 500,000 people worldwide die annually as a result of climate change. Unless the world wakes up, overpopulation and the nonconservation of Mother Earth will lead to the demise of humans on Earth. Enough said.
Dean Nagasako
Honokaa