Tiare Ribeaux

Waste is a luxury. It’s an excess you can only afford by ignoring its cost. At the societal level, that cost is an unsustainable future. As is true for many island nations occupied by industrial powers, Hawai‘i’s production of waste is growing exponentially. Fifty generations ago, pre-contact islanders living in the most remote archipelago on Earth struggled to imagine an industrial structure that takes from one energy system without replenishing another.