00:09:20.080I mean, it's really interesting. I was having a conversation with some other elders here just yesterday about this topic, about values, and how the fix may not be where it is we are looking presently.
00:09:38.580And from the indigenous world and the native tribal world that I've experienced over the last few decades, I can say there is a concerted dialogue around the need for our dominant narrative to review the values that exist at the core,
00:10:04.760at its driving fundamental center to re-inspect what those value sets are and what it is that
00:10:16.500they are targeted at, what it is that that dominant narrative hopes to achieve by its
00:10:25.420practice. And I apologize for being diplomatic about the conversation, but I think at this
00:10:35.580juncture, we should be cautious with our language. We should try to have the conversation in a way
00:10:43.460that invites everyone to the table. I believe that we may be facing the sixth great extinction
00:10:53.720an event on the planet, and it could include the Homo sapiens. And to that effect, I think you're
00:11:01.560right that we need to talk about the changes needed in our society, in our family groupings,
00:11:10.860in our institutions, and certainly the change that needs to happen at an individual or
00:11:19.460transpersonal level. At some point, the idea of participating in the water bubble in a responsible
00:11:29.600way, responsible to the environment and our surround, responsible to society and the people
00:11:38.260that partner in survivability with us, responsible to our family members, and certainly responsible
00:11:46.380to ourselves around our behavior and the way we engage with all others in this water bubble.
00:11:56.340This, in fact, at some point is a transpersonal decision. Whether we decide to be a predator
00:12:05.680or a participant in life is a decision that is wholly personal and generally revealed to the
00:12:16.300self just moments before our last breath. I would like for us to consider these important concerns
00:12:26.380that literally make up the story of our personal lives perhaps a little earlier. Maybe between
00:12:34.6407 and 14 and in an initiatory setting controlled by community that helps one move from child to
00:12:43.700adult in a responsible way. I don't know if the education system as it exists now has undermined
00:12:51.140our community capacity to develop relevant and needed participatory citizenship in social
00:13:01.000ordering. But I noticed a lot of charter schools and home schools lately designed to teach
00:13:09.840from a myriad, diverse background of social beliefs and religious structures.
00:13:17.620I want to celebrate all the crayons in the box, but I want to remind the varying
00:13:22.760crayons and the diverse palette of colors that it's really not about the crayons. It should be
00:13:29.440about the picture we're all painting together did that make sense yeah i'm well something that i was
00:13:38.060thinking about that really made sense was being diplomatic and really choosing our language and
00:13:44.040inviting everybody to the table i don't think that we need any more divisiveness at this point
00:13:49.740not to say i think that we should be justifying actions that are that are detrimental and and
00:13:58.700painful, but I also think that there needs to be a way in which we can communicate with one
00:14:04.560another. And the other thing that you were mentioning about responsibility, I see a really
00:14:09.860interesting dichotomy that's happening right now. There's this piece of people feeling like
00:14:15.940somehow their actions don't count or, you know, it doesn't really matter if they vote. It doesn't
00:14:23.400really matter if they recycle it doesn't really matter if they use plastic or treat you know it's
00:14:29.400kind of like well the world's kind of going down anyways or i don't really have power people feel
00:14:36.160like they don't have power right now and and then i agree and then i and i feel like then what
00:14:41.740happens is people don't feel like they have power so they don't take responsibility but then they go
00:14:45.880well it's the corporations that are doing this it's the corporations that use all the water it's
00:14:50.240the corporations that use all the pollutions, so on and so forth, but we're not realizing that
00:14:55.520we are responsible because the corporations are extracting because we are purchasing the items
00:15:02.520that are in the use of extraction. So I think this topic of responsibility of our individual power
00:15:11.000and what you were saying about responsibility to ourselves, to our community, to our family,
00:15:17.060to our earth, that really strikes a chord with me.
00:15:20.300And I really appreciate you bringing that up because I think we need to get out of the
00:15:25.160mentality that somehow our actions, no matter how small we think they are, actually add
00:15:32.220to either the collective harm or the collective healing.
00:15:37.000I mean, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:15:40.140You know, George Mason University in Yale in 2017, between May 18th and June 6th, they did a study with a large group of Americans, more than half of which, 58%, believe that climate change is human-caused, that we're an agency, the major agency in it.
00:16:03.400Four in ten Americans, according to this study, think the odds that global warming will cause
00:16:10.860humans to become extinct is 50% or higher.
00:16:15.420One in four Americans say providing a better life for children or their grandchildren is
00:16:21.160the most important reason for reducing global warming.
00:16:25.780Now, all this documentation about how well-informed Americans are about the global situation,
00:16:34.360yet the American government is pretending there's no such thing as climate change.
00:16:38.260I think that's symptomatic of the greater problem, which is, and I mean this in the
00:16:47.280best possible sense, a lack of leadership, which is leading to the apathy in the social
00:16:53.780group that you're, I think, commenting on. You know, they see no real leadership. They see
00:17:01.040those that are the haves ignoring the problem. They feel disenfranchised, ostracized from
00:17:10.280either the resources or the political access that they need to make a change. And so they find
00:17:18.160themselves retreating into a corner of despair. Now, this framework of modernity, it's intentionally
00:17:28.940put forward by those that are extracting and profiting greatly. You know, I got to remind us
00:17:37.380and remind myself that while the 97% of us argue for 90, for 5% of the, you know, resources on the
00:17:47.560planet, that other 3% is fighting one another for the 95% of the resources on the planet.
00:17:55.920And it's amazing that as a group of people, we won't address this larger problem. And that's
00:18:05.780quite possibly, again, a transformative personal moment. Is it in fact about personal integrity
00:18:14.820and respect and regard and then we start thinking on a larger global scale about stories like the
00:18:24.380doctrine of discovery the papal bulls and how they construct the framework around land courts
00:18:31.880and land ownership and the admiralty courts and that all plays into our legal findings today and
00:18:38.440And so we find ourselves adhering to a man-made law that seems to be weighted, weighted to support one particular slice of our society at the expense of the other 97%.
00:18:55.800So this is all very interesting from a behavioral perspective, but the truth is, when that extreme event happens, when the great balancing effect happens, whether it's a large natural disaster or a catastrophic global economic collapse,
00:19:18.780When it happens, those systems, irregardless, and I can use that because it's in a comical sense, irregardless of anything we do or say will collapse and will not support the mechanisms that drive our society today.
00:19:39.540And so one has to be ready in that liminal space, in that moment of change, to respond.
00:19:49.880And that's where we began looking at this in a different way.
00:19:54.040At that moment, each human being is going to have to decide whether they are a victim or not a victim, whether you're a victim or a responder.
00:20:05.000This is what happens to us right in that moment of the event.
00:20:09.540And so we thought at our foundation, working with Peaceboat, working with other community
00:20:16.920organizations and particularly children's groups in education settings, we would need
00:20:23.860to develop a new language, a new way to talk about this that enables people to internalize
00:20:31.920their own decision and their own capacity building.
00:20:36.280prepare themselves for that personal moment of change.
00:21:06.280We are climbing, Jacob, as a soldier in the long army of the earth.
00:21:23.160Tell me, do you think I'd make a good soldier?
00:21:29.880that's really so deep to think about this languaging and this understanding of being
00:21:40.880a victim or a responder and how we're going to show up in these very challenging and frightening
00:21:49.920moments and you know i have a lot of thoughts one one of the many thoughts leads me to violence and
00:21:58.220I know, gosh, violence has just permeated so many facets of our society for so long,
00:22:04.460like you had mentioned the doctrine of discovery. But under the idea that climate crisis may
00:22:09.800very well lead governments to abandon their citizens and cause illusory systems to collapse,
00:22:16.440I imagine that society will again take their frustrations out publicly. And I wonder how
00:22:22.740people are going to hold themselves in this world. It seems to me that an important conversation to
00:22:28.620have is one where we can begin asking each other, how can we be proactive in the face of a future
00:22:36.100that could very well possess? If you think about it deeper, if we go in deeper, how can we be so
00:22:46.560aware and involved and yet we see so much apathy right why there's so little progress regarding the
00:22:54.000communities and one reason might be that human beings are apathetic that we're given to ignoring
00:23:02.700life-threatening conditions until the 11th hour you know we won't even run out of the house until
00:23:08.760the buildings actually collapsing around us. But conversely, one reason might be we see more profit
00:23:21.940and more control with a slow crawl to capacity. So in other words, there's a multi-million dollar
00:23:31.240industry geared towards response, towards training for disaster? Who is ensuring the
00:23:39.060reliability of the supply lines? And by what companies and who provides it? Is it about
00:23:45.400maximizing potential profit? Who's providing, you know what I mean, for the service? And who's
00:23:51.900awarded the contract? Who's funding the equipment and the supplies towards disaster preparedness?
00:23:58.560who's making the money from potential victimhood profits are made when communities are not ready
00:24:07.680so when will we as communities actually become ready that's a tough one to say what i can say
00:24:15.880is what my grandfather told me quite some time ago he said preparedness is best done in advance
00:24:25.860and that's not something we do i know that that sounds crazy but in fact as a society
00:24:35.180as people that's not what we do you know what we do instead is we get ready for whatever just
00:24:44.680happened does that make sense to you it's like when we talk about mitigation or preparedness
00:24:51.860we always prepare for whatever disaster just occurred you know i mean we almost never are
00:25:00.720preparing because and here's the kicker whatever just happened there's an incredible set of
00:25:09.840circumstantial odds that pretty much preclude that it would ever happen that way again
00:25:16.180but that's what we prepare for you know i mean as soon as the hurricane or whatever we measure
00:25:23.560how fast those winds come well where did the water get to all right then let's let's do something to
00:25:30.540respond to that but it'll never happen like that again we have evidence for 37 years
00:25:38.840with national weather service showing them that it never happens the same way twice
00:25:44.760and yet we still as policy prepared for whatever just went by
00:25:52.900we literally spend hundreds of millions of dollars we won't spend a couple million ahead
00:26:03.100of time preparing anybody but we will spend hundreds of millions afterwards and it's a
00:26:11.220lesson we learned in 1870 it was called reconstruction after the civil war we realized
00:26:18.460wow there's a lot of money to be made when you got to rebuild the buildings interesting right
00:26:24.560it's so interesting and i think about what happened in cordova in the prince william sound
00:26:33.640in Alaska when the XN Valdez oil spill happened. When the oil spilled, it was kind of staying in
00:26:42.660place for a little bit because the winds hadn't picked up and they were waiting 48 hours for any
00:26:49.160response from the companies who so-called were in charge. They didn't have the materials. They
00:26:54.800literally did not have the tools and supplies. Much of the supplies were under snow. Some of it
00:26:59.880was out some of it hadn't even been purchased yet so there was really no preparedness and then
00:27:04.660the fisher folk had to go out with buckets to try to get as much oil as they could out of the water
00:27:09.620of course they weren't able to succeed because there wasn't the preparedness and i bet you that
00:27:15.780if there was community preparedness among the fisher folk if there's something going you know
00:27:21.140these companies aren't actually going to take care of this maybe there's other companies that
00:27:26.320are going to come in and profit like you were talking about which happens all the time this
00:27:29.560disaster capitalism but if the fisher folk knew that they actually had to prepare themselves for
00:27:35.480a disaster like this i wonder how different that would look and it's really it isn't it's kind of
00:27:41.800a form of insanity that somehow we believe or are so entitled to believe that somehow somebody else
00:27:49.640is going to take care of it and we aren't really responsible we don't have to be the ones that are
00:27:53.920preparing and then of course that after these disasters happen like I think about the fires
00:28:00.620in California last year whole towns burned down Walmarts and Targets and you know you can imagine
00:28:07.500everything burning up on the shelves and then what happens is so many times these disasters come and
00:28:13.920then people rebuild the same ways in the same places without thinking it's going to happen
00:28:19.320again and we really have to be looking at the fact that these natural disasters aren't going
00:28:26.880anywhere and we cannot keep rebuilding in the same ways thinking that somehow we're not going
00:28:33.820to be affected the next year or the next year or the next year or the next year it's it is this
00:28:37.960kind of yeah insanity uh thought process but it's our language right thought process insanity
00:28:45.520thought process our language the way we define the way for example see we were just talking about
00:28:52.820natural disasters but they're not disasters these are actually natural processes and then
00:29:01.720it's only a disaster or a hazard because people with their stuff are standing in the way
00:29:10.040so it's sort of like 10 years ago the wildfire came through here but there was no walmart
00:29:16.940right but now we built a walmart and there's an intersection over here so now when the
00:29:21.780wildfire comes through the walmart is destroyed but it's like wow it's a disaster now only because
00:29:29.700we put the walmart there so these natural processes they fluctuate like all other events
00:29:38.560in life, they're on an arc, a curb, a natural arcing cycle of positive and negative influence.
00:29:46.960So some years they will be greater, some years they will be less. But overall climate change
00:29:54.760suggests that the less is getting lesser and the more is getting more, if you know what I mean.
00:30:03.040So we're going to see greater, hotter, longer duration and higher impact events and less throttling down to smaller events now in the cycle because where we are as climate is impacted by our actions and activities.
00:30:22.120that being said we really do need to prepare our communities and we need to do it in a way
00:30:29.300that makes us not victims but responders you know i mean so that we don't feel like
00:30:36.380we're dangling at the end of a leash waiting to be supplied something by some emergency service
00:30:43.960contractor but rather that we're definitely in control of our situation and able to provide
00:30:51.580for ourselves and that's a whole shift in consciousness yeah it is absolutely as a whole
00:31:00.080shift in consciousness honestly i've i'm shifting right now and just hearing you say natural
00:31:05.420disasters versus natural processes and how just in that language shift there's a different
00:31:12.300relationship to the event itself and absolutely i was i was writing a thought about the doctrine
00:31:19.880of relationship is this in fact a response to the doctrine of discovery like for example
00:31:28.260if we rather than vilify the doctrine of discovery if we take it instead and place it in the medicine
00:31:36.300wheel or something we might see more holistically than giving it that bifurcated zero-sum look
00:31:46.260that modernity or the culture of Europe always tends to do, right? They always tend to
00:31:52.800have a culture of debate. They put things into two columns, pro and con, and then they simply
00:32:01.640do this ping pong match back and forth, decide which one has more on the list, so the weight
00:32:08.480of their evidence, and then they choose the lesser of two evils. But I think in the indigenous world,0.96
00:32:16.260We tend to place things in a circle, in a medicine wheel, and it's cyclical, and it's seasonal, and it moves through a living expression.
00:32:26.400So in that look, I'm thinking the doctrine of discovery, maybe this is just the north or the element of air or ancestry, and it's relegated to our past.
00:32:41.420And at one time might have held validity, but we can see now through our growth that it was erroneous, that it needs to be brought into harmony.
00:32:53.740and maybe opposite the north in the south was the doctrine of recognition of protocol
00:33:00.240whereas if Christopher Columbus had recognized that the Taino or the Arawaks were also people
00:33:08.860with families and civilizations and rules he might have shaken hands rather than chopped
00:33:15.580hands off looking for gold so there's that and maybe in the east is the doctrine of creation
00:33:23.280the feminine the verdant the thing that supports life and and maybe in the west is the doctrine of
00:33:31.720separation of destruction the way of the masculine which of course leads to resurrection and the
00:33:39.080re-beginning but might i suggest that the doctrine of separation is something we as a society do
00:33:46.460poorly. We tend to want to collect our gold toys and get buried with them rather than transfer
00:33:54.120our wealth and our knowledge to the next generation. So in that thinking, I think the
00:34:01.880intergenerational transfer of knowledge is perhaps one of the big missing elements in our education
00:34:10.440system and in that initiatory experience we were speaking about earlier and that as a society we
00:34:18.080need to rediscover ways and means to transfer this knowledge in a deeply personal way between
00:34:25.720grandchildren and grandparents re-establishing this deep intergenerational connection that gives
00:34:33.260us a relationship. If we include all four directions, the north, the south, the east,
00:34:40.540and the west, in this doctrine of relationship, a more holistic learning, a way of realizing our
00:34:48.220deep interconnectedness to all that is, we might develop a different value set that drives our
00:34:55.880society to a different capacity around adaptation and response to both each other, the environment,
00:35:04.580and to the society that we all want to serve in a greater way.
00:35:11.780Yeah, I really see a future in which that could happen. And I so hope for it. But I want to get
00:35:22.520back to violence for a minute and i was on this thought thinking you know how can we be proactive
00:35:29.640in the face of the future that could very well possess an increase in violence during these
00:35:36.040periods of massive change and transformation so as a peacekeeper and advisor to the center of the
00:35:42.200global non-killing or for global non-killing and of course somebody who is walking through this
00:35:47.660world with awareness. I'm hoping you could speak to nonviolent conflict resolutions during the age
00:35:54.080of climate change. And how can we prepare ourselves for this? You know, what does it require to
00:36:00.020envision a world in which non-killing is possible? Yes. And it's interesting. It begins there at zero
00:36:08.540to five. It begins with this idea, you know, it's so interesting. And that's why I wanted to send
00:36:15.080you know, notes on these books and the look we're taking at it. And a little lesson called
00:36:20.680Hana i Kolima, which in Hawaiian means work with the hands. We were thinking the design is really
00:36:28.000with the children. It's really about this intergenerational transfer of knowledge, a way of
00:36:33.540sharing deeper, reflective teaching that we perhaps may not be focused on in the culture of
00:36:43.720modernity. So I can give you an example of that. And it would be, for example, this simple idea
00:36:56.240at the beginning of the book around what it is that we do as people, as society. And I'll do a
00:37:07.600little if you'll allow me a little excerpt please nana kamaka to look with the eyes
00:37:16.540to listen with the ears most people see what they want to see most people hear what they want to
00:37:29.020hear but if you put your emotions ahead of what you observe you could be led astray
00:37:36.240Indigenous knowledge seeks to remove personal bias.
00:37:42.700Nana Kamaka, look with your eyes, not your heart.
00:38:03.080So, for example, those are just two of some of the early principles that begin to establish the ability to listen actively, to communicate deeply, and not for altruistic reasons, but to be self-serving.
00:38:23.140The fact is, if you participate as a collaborative human being, you will be far more successful. So human beings are basically cooperative and compassionate beings. Given the right set of circumstances, they can achieve most anything.
00:38:45.100So part of what we need to do is create the right field of play, the right table or setting for our children to express themselves in the most meaningful way.
00:38:58.600And so, you know, I'm certain that there, I always tell my students, you know, if there's important things to take care of, really important matters, let me know so I can send the staff person.
00:39:11.500because I only want to do what's meaningful.
00:39:15.540There's always going to be important stuff.
00:39:18.460But the idea of having a life that's lived meaningfully
00:39:22.320so that what I do is reflected in my value sets and who I am,
00:39:27.700it gives me a deeper personal experience
00:39:31.020and a greater sense of both sorrow and joy.
00:43:48.440And so I think we need to honor that idea about doing.
00:43:54.400And government tries very hard, and there's a lot of institutions like the Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Federations, and they all try terribly hard.
00:44:11.740But I'm not convinced that they do much if you are following me.
00:44:19.980and so the doing I feel comes down to actual community and when we talk about community
00:44:30.940some folks think it's community by political party jurisdictions drawn around registered
00:44:38.980voters boundary lines some people think it's community defined by municipality or by state
00:44:47.300boundary lines or there's a lot of different concepts about what that means you know but
00:44:54.480the fact is community is actually family at some point it all comes down to family and so
00:45:04.580we at Olohana like to work in that way when I I like that word you use infiltrate when I've been
00:45:13.860working with these larger organizations, whether it's the Rising Voices Consortium or IPCCWGE or
00:45:21.680any of the other groups we work with, NOAA, Pacific Services Center, you know, I have one rule.
00:45:31.280I do not do things as institutions, organizations, or even as strong individuals. I will only do
00:45:41.660action or an effort if we will do it as family.
00:45:47.640And there's a reason I want that kind of familial
00:45:52.260obligation to the effort. And it goes like this.
00:45:57.000Family always has that uncle that you don't trust
00:46:02.260around the young kids, you know. And family
00:46:05.960always has that crazy aunt, the one that brings up the same1.00
00:46:10.160argument every year for the last 10 years at every Thanksgiving and Easter dinner.0.60
00:46:16.440And guess what? Next Christmas, she's still invited to the table. And so's that crazy uncle,
00:46:24.760because that's family. It's messy. It's dirty. It's ugly. But we still must persevere.0.99
00:46:33.100Well, the way I look at it, the family of man is living inside this water bubble.
00:46:39.740And no matter how ugly it gets, we're all still in the same canoe.
00:46:44.780So we must, for the sake of our children and the next generation, figure out how we can all be here together in a responsible way that serves all of our purposes and moves the human race,
00:47:01.300propels us forward in a responsible way to the rest of the biosphere. One could say that in some
00:47:11.480sense, although I consider myself a Hawaiian citizen and a sovereign person of the Hawaiian
00:47:19.480nation, I am a Jeffersonian, and I do value American politics and philosophy. And I think
00:47:28.960Jefferson was a rational anarchist. And I subscribe to that kind of thinking. I believe
00:47:35.680everybody in the world should be able to do whatever it is they want to do, as long as they
00:47:41.320don't negatively impact anyone or anything else. Oh, goodness. I wish we all lived by that.
00:47:49.980yes and yeah you see though if we begin teaching our children they will never go to violence you
00:47:59.560know in the global non-killing effort we actually did the demographic study from 1900 to 2000
00:48:08.660of all the wars in that 100 year period and we counted all the victims of the wars any violence
00:48:18.600incursion and then added in any of these political unrest situations and you you realize that it
00:48:26.340comes down to less than one percent of the human population was involved in any of that violence
00:48:32.300less than one percent now if that was diabetes we would be on the verge of the cure
00:48:41.140if that was cancer less than one percent the human race would be celebrating
00:48:48.460are you following me and yet less than one percent we still all think war is inevitable
00:48:57.200how is that possible it's because of the story we tell ourselves
00:49:03.700i know it's kind of interesting the evidence is there the facts are there but any of us who have
00:49:12.500watched mainstream media in the last two years you gotta know what a circus it's become
00:49:19.100oh absolutely and i feel like yes the evidence is there the statistics are there a lot of the
00:49:29.020solutions are here but there is this disconnect and i i want to talk a bit about that disconnect
00:49:35.080and also i want to talk about hawaii specifically and in researching for this interview um you know
00:49:43.300i was looking into what was happening with hawaii in terms of the agro ecology and the marine
00:49:50.960systems and the heating waters and and i came across coral reefs which i know provide shoreline
00:49:58.100protection from major storm events and are a crucial source for food for local communities
00:50:03.320and then additionally the coral reef is at the center of and i'm probably going to mispronounce
00:50:09.140this the uh kum yulipo the kanaka maiola creation story but yet this acidity of the pacific ocean
00:50:17.940it's increased by 25 percent in the past three centuries and it's projected to increase another
00:50:23.86040 to 50 percent by 2100 causing further coral bleaching and changes in marine migration and
00:50:30.620the ocean circulation in general and then additionally Hawaii is set to lose over 25,000
00:50:36.160acres of land causing nearly 20,000 shoreline residents to be displaced due to an anticipated
00:50:41.320one to three foot sea level rise. So I know this is somewhat of an overload of statistics which I
00:50:47.740kind of just mentioned that we have a lot of these statistics you know on sea level rise warming
00:50:52.420water and of course just the acknowledgement of ancestral connection but these threads are so
00:50:58.400deeply entwined with one another that it's hard for me to even begin to try and vocalize these
00:51:04.520profound connections but yet globally the general public is so largely disconnected from the everyday
00:51:10.660effects of climate change and this is only heightened by the fact that so many of us live
00:51:15.600lifestyles in which we sit in air-controlled offices and commute through underground subways
00:51:20.740and, you know, spend the vast majority of our days lost in screens, but our daily actions or
00:51:26.660really inactions are directly contributing to the lessening trade winds and shifting rain patterns
00:51:32.660that are felt in Hawaii. So my, I know this is all over the place, but my question I think here is
00:51:39.280what advice do you have or what work do you do to address this global disconnect? And can you give
00:51:46.920some examples of what it means to practice localization the global local thing while
00:51:52.820standing on behalf of the place you know and love yeah and tricky ground tricky tricky ground right
00:52:00.100like melting tundra one could say fraught with that same kind of disasters the potential for
00:52:06.580methane explosion any moment now you know and how to do that how to create awareness while still
00:52:15.520protecting natural resources while we're living in an environment where our own actions our
00:52:23.000personal actions have very little to do with the impacts we're feeling as they are generally driven
00:52:29.380by as you say larger societies that live in ways that are extractive and consumptive without their
00:52:40.080own internal awareness. So it's really tough, right? I mean, the American people think of
00:52:48.440themselves as a fair and just people who are really focused on doing the right thing for the
00:52:56.700world, and yet they consume 38 to 42 percent of all the world's natural resources, and they're
00:53:03.800only six percent of the population. But the Americans don't think about that at all. They
00:53:09.000just want to drive down to the 7-Eleven and grab that Slurpee. So I mean, this is an interesting
00:53:16.440thing you're talking about. It's about value sets. It's about reconditioning population.
00:53:23.800What I've noticed when we're talking in policy is you can condemn pretty much everything except
00:53:31.120somebody's food. Don't be saying nothing about their food. Food is the thing everybody gets
00:53:38.520touchy about gotta feed the kids gotta and really the production of beef globally has some serious
00:53:48.060impacts for us all but we can't talk about the beef industry because that would be taking food
00:53:55.020out of people's mouths so uh we have to find ways to talk about it so me i talk about food security
00:54:02.380and food sovereignty so we try to put diversified food back on the ground what's really happened
00:54:10.400with our food supply is the entire globe is now being sourced out food by about six major
00:54:20.260corporations globally and they don't want you actually being able to hunt or gather or procure
00:54:27.060your own food. They want you to buy it from them in some form or fashion, wholesale, retail,
00:54:35.440some form. So I think they have an awful lot of global power in terms of influence policy-wise,
00:54:44.720politically. And wow, I'd almost venture to say through the pharmaceutical companies,
00:54:51.440They have military capacity also, as evidenced by the war over the poppy flowers.
00:55:00.560But all that aside, the fix still comes at a transpersonal moment when people decide very personally that they will live a different lifestyle,
00:55:15.120live more in harmony and balance with the earth mother and so we run into real policy problems
00:55:25.540in governance when government wants to separate religiosity spirituality from governance and for
00:55:33.600good reasons but it has a sterility of a way of distancing the moral impacts of governance
00:55:42.000And then I think we further want to stratify control by economic access and capacity. And that's a false indicator created by aristocracy and the serfs, which is also another false description of the human race.
00:56:02.660And yet, until we create the mechanisms for properly educating or indoctrinating or invigorating our young into a society that is more compassionate, more inclusive, more in keeping with our environment,
00:56:22.000then we are doomed to repeat this slow climb and rapid descent that the human race seems to have
00:56:34.440been experiencing for a hundred thousand years so yes i invite any communities to get in touch
00:56:42.520with us at olohana.org or myself at mkalani at mkalani.com if you want to engage in some global
00:56:51.100ideas around the formation of community capacity in a way that literally puts water, food and
00:56:59.560energy resources and waste management, which is a huge part of our problem in the world today,
00:57:06.740back into the hands of community at a small scale.
00:57:09.600Thank you so much, Kalani. This has really been an incredibly heartwarming and also very
00:57:16.160invigorating conversation I feel like riled up but at the same time comforted which is such an
00:57:21.500interesting mix but um yeah that's exactly it you should feel energized to do something not to try
00:57:28.820something you know try not do or do not you know what I mean it's like and in doing something you
00:57:35.920want to get fired up but not in a confrontational aggressive way of fired up or on optimism that
00:57:43.580it's possible we can yes yes yes yes we can we can and we have to yeah thank you so much again
00:57:52.220for the chance and the opportunity to talk story around this is the only way we get stuff done
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