Lāhainā was once lush, but then water was taken
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- Lāhainā was once lush, but then water was taken
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Beautiful report!
Much like what’s happening in the Midwest United States, farmers are forced to grow crops that are for commercial use and abandon the natural ways of bio divergence… This is done on a government level. along with invasive species of grass, has contributed to the disaster here in Lahaina. People try to rise up and oppose, but politicians and government policy is at the core of these problems
Thanks for sharing - good report. I visited in '79 and remember the Islands as being lush. I would never have guessed they could have become so dry, much like California, at least in part. Hawaii will always hold a special place in so many peoples' hearts, including mine. Sincere wishes for healthy healing. As terrible as this disaster was, the people of Maui and Lahaina now have a very unique opportunity to reinvent themselves for the future. Wish you all the best -
Great segment, Kamaka 🤙
Bring the water back through passive earthworks catchment and block private interests from hoarding this natural resource to which we have a collective right to.
I’d rather partake in fresh fruit rather than sugar. Fresh fruit has terpenes and flavonoids which contain nature’s medicine.. Bring back the aquaculture and gardens of lushness To Lahaina.. healing prayers❤💜🙏🏝️🌴I Hope Hawaii gets their land back and heals as Hawaii one was.. before any industry.. 🙏💫🌴Aloha from mainland.
bring the water back....plant agriculture...then rebuild the community
So true. It was exquisitely beautiful when we went there on our honeymoon almost fourty years ago. Lush pineapple plantations and thick cane fields. So gorgeous. A gracious tour guide even planned a picnic under a tent adjacent to an enormous pineapple field. No resemblance to the desert like landscape seen today. What happened?
They closed the sugar cane and pineapple plantations but didn't put another crop back in the soil. So you have acres and acres of nothing growing and you end up with dry dust storms. But some areas they are planting fruit trees and other crops so hopefully that will help.
There’s a short paperback called “The Sugar Blues”. Cultivating sugar in Hawaii - the cause of many sorrows
And to THIS DAY those streams are still damed for the oligarchs privatized use......
Lahaina turned into a wasteland when Pioneer Mill closed. Love Sugar or hate it, the Sugar industry provided jobs and homes for thousands of Lahaina locals. I grew up in Lahaina (one block of Front Street) and locals have nothing but fond memories of Sugar. We NEVER had wildfires...EVER. The hillsides above Lahaina and Ka'anapali were always green and well cared for.
I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat.
My dad said back in his day that Lahaina was lush and the development was way less. Only 1 highway all around and there was hardly anyone. It was much of a small-town feeling that I also do recall while growing up. There were pineapple fields along with sugar cane. This took a sudden turn when Hawaii began to realize that global tourism would be its major economy. Of course this would turn into changes like drought and our climate change does not help any further. I noticed this change up post-2010 when trade winds were much less. Which means we no longer get the rain we need and much hotter conditions. It would feel every year would be much hotter
I have noticed that too, it's getting drier and drier. kula was never meant to get fires and dryness and yet...it is
@@OperationHawaiiana I always remembered Kula being so green and always misting up on the hills. Maui is changing like the rest of our world
@@Travis66421 aah yes, I may have only been 7 when we moved maui and yes that was 7 years ago but I remember that too. it used to be so green, but then it just got drier and drier and drier, heck, pretty sure November 2022 there was an entire heard of dead deer somewhere near the highway. also, I remember you could always find jacksons from kula, to rice street, and even makawao, I have not seen one since 2020, and it was at rice street, so dry though...we need our watersheds back, we really do
It's time to bring back the old with the new, in balance. Starting with Lahaina being in Kanaka Maoli control. 1000%
Kanakas should have picked their own sugarcane. Maybe they would have become the wealthiest families in Hawaii. Instead of the Japanese that came over and did the backbreaking work for them.
Pua mana no.
Greed is Earths most deadliest disease
I can see the lower parts of Lahaina being lush, but the hills behind where the sugar cane was, I can't imagine that they were very lush. It's the hills where the fire hazard was because of the invasive grasses. What was on the hills before sugar cane?
Right now my heart is with the unaccounted children and the over 85 bodies that washed up on the Lanai shores. Lord's blessings on everyone.
There's no information about bodies appearing on the Lanai shores, what are you on?
Thank you for the knowledge and history lesson. Seems greed once again has ruined mother Earth. This is all fixable, and now it lies on the humans running the system.
Humans and their love of money. Hope it can be fixed.
Same thing in many other places.... sugar cane is not even healthy for people.... Love to us all!
Not true. All fruit contains sugar. The body needs sugar to function…glucose. The issue is how much sugar is consumed versus other nutrients needed.
@@HeatherRose2023 White sugar contains no nutritional value, only calories. People will starve if they just eat white sugar and there's no purpose to grow it other than profit Humans do need sugars, just not white sugar. It also causes all sorts of health problems. And if you listen to the woman, she said they suffered a famine because it was planted rather than their native plants.
stop noticing@gcnradio4662
The body and brain needs glucose (sugar) to function. I would rather eat sugar extracted naturally from sugar cane than sugar derived through chemical modification, i.e. saccharine and aspartame.
The body needs glucose, which comes from all kinds of carbohydrate sources. Not just sugar.
White sugar is processed. Most people don't eat it raw.
the word she is looking for is Konohiki
Please watch the interview with the locals liked the 7month pregnant mother of three
Try plant coconut and mangos papaya
Sugar cane taro
Make Lahaina Hawaiian again!
It's roots are strong it will recover.
Greed at its finest
the water ran out when it was needed.
It was NOT because Lahaina is on the leeward and therefore dry side of the island.
Build a desalinization plant
Mahalo, Kamakapili. This is what capitalists do Don't be surprised.
Just as reverent as the native American Indians were of the main land
Ask Beatrice Krauss she was there...
Sorry, I'll never understand because you're surrounded by endless oceans of water.
Have the state buy the land all the way up into the mountains and give it to the Hawaiians. Then let them build a casino. while fixing the water mess.
There is ZERO sugar cultivation happening on Maui, therefore it is safe for the owners of A&B and Mahi Pono, and mindless politicians to blame their own sugar cane past as they murder Lahaina residents.
Is it part of hawaiis heritage to not look for missing children.?
You never explained how Climate Change took all the water and created a sugar-cane desert.
Yeah but, the aboriginal Hawaiians are happy.
Exactly