HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-05-02 Elura Morris OP From: Elura Morris
To: W PCtesti mono
Subject: In support for No resort in Punalu"u, Ka"u
Date: Friday, May 3,2024 3:10:39 AM
Hello,
My name is Elura Morris and I reside in Montgomery County, Maryland. I wanted to voice
my support with the indigenous people of Hawaii who do no want another restort on their
ancestral land. Here are the follow areas of concern:
1)Native Hawaiins already are displaced,without access to their land and resources as it is.
How would a resort be able to sustain tourists without taking away precious resources like
access to home affordability and fresh water from native residents?
2) There are endangered plants and animals at risks. While there are some respectful tourists
such as myself, I've gone to enough national parks to see children play and endanger the wild
life with little to no supervision, or drunken adults do terrible things. And let's be honest,
plenty of lazy adults who don't clean up after themselves. The general consensus is most
American tourist are too irresponsible and treat natural areas like Disneyland.
3) There are enough resorts and golf courses. The idea of a golf course is horrid. We're talking
replacing beautiful native Hawaiin forrest with biodiversity and life with freaking grass so rich
dudes can hit a ball around. God forbid numerous balls get wacked off course and wild life
mistake it for a tasty egg.
4) I'm reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. By no means are his viewpoints perfect but
he wrote a passage that feels relevant to this situation, a Maryland resident begging the
Hawaiin government not to develop this special beach. In his book he writes that a man
doesn't need to ever leave his suburbs or city to advocate for the environment. What fuels him
and his imagination is the idea that such wild and beautiful places still exist and at any time he
can visit and be free. Humans,regardless if they love urban life, still need the idea that wild
places exist. I might be all the way in Marylamd, but Abbey is right, I need to know that
places like Hawaii are being cared for and not rapidly developed. I want to picture these
beaches with their jungles and their endangered turtles not a freaking resort with a golf
course.
Current and future native Hawaiins deserve a Hawaii with less or no developement in sacred
areas. Current and future worldwide citizens deserve the idea that wild beautiful places still
exist unharmed.Nature itself deserves to not have itself uprooted for golf courses and to
comfort tourist with no long term or emotional investment in the land they're visiting.
Best,
Elura Morris