“The new Huffington Post Hawaii site will bring the vast array of all that Hawaii has to offer through its cultural, natural beauty and hospitality to the 75 million monthly visitors of Huffington Post.” What he (PO) doesn’t appear to
“The new Huffington Post Hawaii site will bring the vast array of all that Hawaii has to offer through its cultural, natural beauty and hospitality to the 75 million monthly visitors of Huffington Post.”
What he (PO) doesn’t appear to say is: “I will put a mammoth ‘for-financial-gain’ dairy in the middle of one of the most beautiful scenic views and historically significant sites one could ever imagine or pay to see, and destroy the native watershed habitat, all waters and air quality, build wedges within the island community, bully with money and lawsuits, disrespect cultural protocol, and send a high price publicist to dupe the people and system with proverbial snake oil.”
Mr. Omidyar, have you seen the numbers of visitors Kauai has a year?
Watershed destruction is never a good sign. Is this development with no moral standing, environmentally unconscious, culturally contrary, and a grave concern to the rest of the world, why two of the richest men in America are working in concert to ruin humble Kauai paradise? Makes one wonder how they accumulated all their wealth? All this for just milk? Not even close.
Science is irrefutable. The numbers and history distinctly proves negative impacts and volatility to our small but precious island. Giant vacuum cleaners or water scrubbers won’t make this company’s dream come true.
How much urine, fecal matter, antibiotics, by-washes, foreign chemical introductions and impairment to the air and natural resources from land to ocean does 1,800 head of free-grazing dairy cows make a day? How many more waters are they going to further divert and how many more water habitats are they going to change? How much increase to our population are they bringing in and how many immigrants will be brought in to work there? The impacts to region by workers’ housing and other natural resources? Conservation plan, cultural impact assessment, accountability and carbon and nitrate footprints?
The loi and ocean already kapu waters. Questions are mounted and the answers seem unacceptable for an island. It’s worse than trying to justify bringing your dogs to use the no flush, no pick-up bathroom on the native reefs and shoreline waters and beaches where native Hawaiians fish and their children play and native species live in — every day. Kudos to this generation of the educated.
Big Bang theory. The dairy cow industry has not proven to have evolved to the point of environmental hospitality. This is just one outcome.
We can work together to find a better way and build a better watershed, cultural integrity and evolved development that will enhance the needy and not the greedy. So far, I am not convinced that this is an appropriate plan and building has already begun near the water sources.
Everyone has a right to voice their citizen concerns and protect our home of Kauai. Don’t be afraid to express your concerns as na kanaka ma kona moku o Kauai. Through the intimidation, threats and defamation, allow ke Akua to deal with those who persecute and defame you for the truth. Malama pono apau.
• Rhoda Libre is a resident of Kaumakani, Kauai.
