So, let me get this straight: Mauna Kea is sacred land to Native Hawaiians. And this land is just supposed to sit there. With the winds running over it all day. Every day. Over and over again.

Inevitable discoveries made through the Thirty Meter Telescope can end up helping humanity, particularly the Hawaiian community and other ethnicities. There is no other effective way that the rest of the world can see just see how sacred that mountaintop is.

This small protesting group, which decidedly does not represent the entire Hawaiian community, seems to have seen enough into the future to excuse any such real possibilities. Heck, the lieutenant governor, a doctor, has seemingly written off possibility of discovery through TMT as well.

Talk about “auwe.”

Paul Ventura

Mililani

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