Luke: "With hundreds of daily sessions, thousands of attendees and millions of engaging interactions occurring during the 10-day congress, the event can’t be easily defined."

What we do know for sure is that these 10,000 attendees and thousands more family and support staff, flew in on Kerosene-powered long haul jets, and then back out again, spewing over 40 million pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. 

We know that this contributed to the climate change and ecological calamity they met to address. 

We know definitively that this is the one ecological impact to come out of the World Congress. It could have been "easily defined".

We know this is a tragic irony that no one wanted to talk about, not the environmentalists, the economists, the politicians or even the journalists.

Easily defined but still unspoken is the fact that Hawaii's sustainable, environmentalist, malama 'aina self-image is betrayed by our annual kerosene-powered long-haul airlift of 10,000,000 visitors per year.