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I'll meet you halfway and say that only people of Polynesian descent can live there.

White people in Hawaii kills me because they're only there due to the great 3 c's of capitalism - colonization, cannibalization, and commodification.

It's a huge bummer what foreign intervention has done that island. Obligatory fudge America.

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Yeah, policies based on race are always best practices.

The preceding view is just as silly. Humanity doesn't destroy local life, we become local life. Saying "leave nature alone" when humans are nature personified... its so self defeating.

The Royal Society disagrees:

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/biodiversity...

but what would the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence and fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists know anyway, right?

https://royalsociety.org/about-us/

I said nothing about biodiversity, only the presence of life in general.

I know people who are sarcastic and arrogant as you are are rarely correct.

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