Is sun setting on Hawaii

For 25 percent of adults, the first sign of heart disease is sudden death from a heart attack.

For isolated economies, the first sign that you have flamed out might be that the planes stop flying to your airport on a regular basis.


There is a tipping point to governing. At one point you can grab something before it goes down the tubes. But there is a moment when it is going to slip away no matter how hard you try to pull back.

As James Schlesinger, the first energy secretary, put it: “We have only two modes — complacency and panic.”

The recent events here in Hawaii and across the nation make you wonder just how risky is Hawaii’s future.

For several years planners and futurists such as the University of Hawaii’s James Dator pointed to a condition they call “Peak Oil” as the tipping point. Simply described “Peak Oil” is when the production of the global supply of oil starts to shrink.

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