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Brian Barbata, a Hawaii resident since 1976, received his B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His extensive background includes serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy’s Underwater Demolition and SEAL Team, as a marketing executive, as an accounting consultant and as a founding director of the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative. Barbata wrote this article on behalf of the Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose purpose is to educate policy makers and the people of Hawaii about the state's climate change policies and options.