How admirable is it that some Thirty Meter Telescope protesters have put up a structure on Mauna Kea so quickly (“Mauna Kea activists build illegal structure on lava field,” Star- Advertiser, Sept. 4).

Of course it will be taken down. Perhaps a compromise might have those same protesters hired by the state to build tiny-house communities for our homeless, many of whom are Native Hawaiians.

Let them use their building skills to make a real difference for their brothers and sisters instead of wasting their time and skills on what is essentially a symbolic protest.

The only way out of this mess is compromise. Let’s hope the governor acts quickly to come up with a shared solution.

Jeannette Kinzer

Waimea, Kauai

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