Disaster Capitalism in Maui's Tragedy

The Maui fires were set up 150 years ago. Lahaina wasn't a dry tinderbox; it

was the "Venice of the Pacific." Then, colonial plantations arrived,

diverting billions of gallons of water for sugar and pineapple. They replaced native forests with flammable

grasses. When the plantations left, the land became fuel.

Now, after the tragedy, some say developers are using the disaster to grab the remaining

land and water, a practice known as disaster capitalism.