Aviation is the elephant in the corner few in Hawaii seem willing to look at, but if we are ever to make meaningful reductions in our Carbon impact, this is where it must happen. Let’s start being honest with ourselves and the public. We are the greatest emitter of green-house gasses from aviation of any place on the planet.

One example of the disconnect that is occurring from our environmental activists’ neglect the invisible climate altering emissions of jet travel is “The Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage Sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines”. This voyage of sustainability has been sponsored by the #1 climate polluter in our State. 

Although I have not done the calculations, the flying of all of the Hokule’a crew members, support staff and family back and forth across the planet for the 3 year voyage is inevitably releasing a huge amount of GHGs and contributing to climate change - probably far more than if they had all just gone aboard a large, fuel-efficient motorized ship for the voyage.