Without the base at Pearl it would have been far harder for us to persecute the war. However, given that our strategic plan was to end the war in Europe and then turn to the Pacific the end result would have been the same although it would have taken longer. Hawaii gave Japan nothing strategically other than it deprived us of our most important base in the Pacific. It was beyond most of the Japanese conquests.
By the end of the war we were producing a dozen or more carriers for every one that Japan could make and they were equipped with better planes and pilots than the Japanese. Japan simply did not have the resources to defeat us and given the juggernaut of the Red Army they would have certainly lost all of China and beyond.
>>By the end of the war we were producing a dozen or more carriers for every one that Japan could make.....<<
Our windmills were whirring 24/7 and our solar panels were eating up photons by the mouthful in order to produce the energy required for supporting our heavy industry. And everyone wore a face mask because of the disastrous air pollution. Poor, helpless America.