TMT (30-meter telescope) on sacred Hawaiian land is illegal and destructive

The TMT is touted as a $1.4 billion boon to the local economy (with international support from far-away countries such as Canada, Japan, China and India). But the truth is that the "TMT is a Black Hole of Misplaced Priorities!" On at least 3 levels:

1) The islands are perilously dependent on imported foodstuffs. At least 80%+ of all island groceries are imported, and it's critical to re-develop the once self-sufficient local food production. And it will take a very small percentage of that $1.4 billion to re-invest and revive the local food production to at least 50%.

2) Related to local food production is a similar need to revive and even develop local lumber resource,especially the promising growth of bamboo production. This will involve incentives and changing archaic local building codes to allow for using bamboo in housing and other structural construction. Already University and structural labs have validated the structural strength(in compression, tension and bending stress tests) of several locally-grown bamboo species. All that remains are changes in building officials' antiquated & bureaucratic bias and relatively small investments in setting up local testing labs and incentives for local growers. Again, this is a potential industry that will literally grow to untold millions of revenue dollars.

3) In addition, the student loans incurred by tens of thousands of Hawaii college students--amounting to many millions of dollars--are crippling the island economy. Using a small portion of that $1.4 billion TMT income to defer and/or retire those high-interest loans would instantly jumpstart the local employment and retail sales sectors!

You see, it really doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that the State of Hawaii has totally misplaced its priorities atop the sacred altar of Mauna Kea. Peace & Imua!