Column: Hawaii’s response to climate change should be smart choices, not ‘shared sacrifice’

Climate change is real, as should be obvious to all of us. But we take exception with the proposition that the people of Hawaii need to “sacrifice,” as the headline on a recent commentary by John Kawamoto stated (“Climate change requires shared sacrifice,” Island Voices, Star-Advertiser, Jan. 5). No response to climate change will be free. Our leaders and the public need to have the facts before heading further, at high speed, down the road of approving every conceivable response to climate change. Does Hawaii need to achieve some lofty goal that simply won’t make any positive difference in our daily lives?