To be very clear, Lahaina burning up is not the result of colonialism, but of poor fire prevention measures, including the government response after the fire started.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-t...
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-t...
Everybody knew it was a fire risk != climate change.
There’s no science in that article that disputes facts:
1. They turned off the water.
2. The left the electrical wires hot.
That’s politics not climate change.
Your argument is not valid.
Looks like hundreds are dead over basically government ineptitude.
"West Maui dried up over the past 150 years as water was diverted to support an expansion of sugar plantations and then real-estate development."
And then talks about how the sugar plantations were abandoned and non-native grasses took over, real thick nasty invasive flammable grass. People said "we should do something about that grass" and they did a bit, but the only way to get rid of the grass is to dig it up, and who's gonna pay for that?