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The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Now Maui is a brown, unattractive desert with uncontrolled wildfires instead of controlled fires with irrigation sprinklers.

Maui is going to die.

I already quoted you before but there it is again, in all its melodramatic wrongness.

edit: not to mention that part of the smoke pollution was them burning the existing pipe along with the cane, because it was basically impossible to harvest around it, and it wasn’t harvested until after it was burned.

And, again, the uncontrolled wildfires have been in places where there was no irrigation to begin with.

edit2: It’s still baffling that last part has to be explained for you. There have been no uncontrolled fires in any areas that previously had irrigation, because all the cane field road infrastructure is still there, so the fire dept can drive right to it. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled fires were uncontrolled because there were no easy access points, and there were no previous irrigation sources located there. It’s really weird, or just disingenuous, that you’re trying to conflate these two completely separate things.