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Its not tourists dumping fridges and cars on the side of the road and along the highway. Its not tourists polluting the beaches or driving over turtles with the
by RosanaAnaDana 5y ago
Its not tourists dumping fridges and cars on the side of the road and along the highway. Its not tourists polluting the beaches or driving over turtles with their fishing boats. There is a real misconception around the issues in hawaii and where the sources and sinks of environmental damage are found.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoIt is tourists creating the local economic conditions (tourism industry lobby) that preclude running any sort of real industry which is why those fridges are on the side of the road and not crushed and in a dumpster at the local scrap metal recycler. The fisherman running over turtles (and all the other "fuck everyone but me) behavior is just how things work anywhere tourism is a major industry. When a large chunk of the local economy is dependent on single time transactions with outsiders it creates an massive trickle down incentive to behave that way. You see this same shit in base towns, college towns or any other dump where most of the monetary input is lifted from the pockets of short term transient residents that there is no incentive to do honest business with. Source: lived it, but not on Hawaii