Its true in part.
Plantation agriculture in Hawaii was introduced by the white man. That led to the clearing of large regions of native vegetation, and its replacement by cash crops like pineapple and sugarcane.
In part this all was made possible by the collapse of the native population, mainly because of lack of resistance to old-world diseases, plus an extreme vulnerability to alcohol. The native survivors thus largely abandoned the land.
When plantation agriculture became uneconomic these cultivated lands were effectively abandoned to become grassland.
There indeed is some truth, the monarchy was illegally overthrown. Hawaii should have never been a State, it should have been more like The Philippines, where we would have still had strong military presence there in the Pacific.
And Democratic Party Rule is much to blame as well.
And everything you wrote is BS.
You are right.
The white man also introduced non-native vegetation — the highly combustible non-native and invasive grasses and the even more combustible non-native pine trees that squeezed out the native tropical flora.
It was a tropical paradise until Captain Cook arrived. It’s been downhill ever since.
Question: Would we have annexed Hawaii if we had chosen to ignore the lying yellow journalists like Joseph Pulitzer that ginned up support to go to war against Spain? Without the use of Pearl Harbor as a base in that war it might have been at least more decades before we decided took over Hawaii.
Power lines blown down by the winds. I guess Hawaii should never had electricity
So you’re not just a cackler on the Uke threads - your well-written ignorance/stupdity is ubiquitous throughout FR.
You’re why many of us think foreigners shouldn’t be allowed on FR. Please, at least, just do the Christian thing and stfu.
Sugarcane is presently a cash crop only because of the cash coming from uncle sugar. A lot of little guys getting their 10%.