“‘Climate crisis’ is priority”: That was the headline regarding Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s State of the City address (Star-Advertiser, May 30).

“It is the crisis of our time,” he said. “There’s no more important issue.”

In the same day’s newspaper regarding the Waimanalo protests to stop the destruction of Sherwood Forest, the mayor said the city will continue work on the project because it would cost up to $300,000 to pull back the existing construction contract.

So much irony! A major factor causing the climate crisis is the destruction of forests. Our city should be planting trees, not bulldozing them down. Saying that the city will lose up to $300,000 to stop the project doesn’t take into account the amount of money to be saved by not completing the project. It sounds a lot like the rail project. We can’t afford to stop it? The good thing about the “Save Sherwoods” project is that it has shown the Waimanalo community standing together.

Mialisa Otis

Waimanalo

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