2024-11-04 Christopher Barham Testimony - GP 2045

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From:Christopher Barham To:WPCtestimony Subject:Comments for 2045 plan....keep the 2025 plan please! Date:Monday, November 4, 2024 9:53:14 AM Dear Madam or Sir, I am a land rural land owner and great believer of government stewardship. Particulalry helping to deal with important issues where commercial interests are in opposition to the greater voter and community interest. Additionally stewardship is important in dealing with longer term time horizons, as this tries plan to do. I also believe in a strong communication process, which we are so engaged. What I find strange, is that there is really a lack of professionalism, (significant lack of key defintions having in part come from a legal background), in the creation of this 2045 document that is completley taking a different direction to the 2025 equivelant. Is this 2045 paper rushed, or a willfull desire to decieve the constituents? There is a terrible history of abuse in Hawaii, and this document really continues in that direction. I would like to know who developed the new directions and perspectives of this tome? I am a believer in some aspectes of the U.N. but clearly it is also quite dysfunctional with the Security Council and other agenecies or groups under it's umbrella. The WEF, is not far from some of my economic professor family perspectives, and as I comment to them, the only natural world equivalent to the current economic paradigm of unlimited growth is cancer. I suspect we need to move toward something like Bhutan which has Gross Domestic Happiness as one of it's economic indicators. In the U.S.A., democracy as we typically interpret it never existed, as it was the white, wealthy landowners who directed what happened at the formation of this country, and this power has obtensibly now been transferred to the Commerical sector. It is vital that human beings and communities really shape what is best for them, as opposed to commerical or other interests. Do you function from a place of inner awareness that is fear-based, and all the inherent complication and viscious viscious circles of insufficiency, force, and distortion of the human character, or do you choose to be self aware of the human ego and lead from a place of the wisdom and bliss bodies? In this day and age, if our government leaders are not functioning from the bliss and wisdome bodies, having done internal work to understand the images and belief structures that are dulistic in nature, and so choose to lead from unity and Oneness from beyond the mind and self-structure, then they need to learn to do this or resign. I am happy to create an ongong training program for the County and State should you so be called to function from a more empowering place of awareness and self-responsibility. In fact, this kind of education could be a part of how all teachers and children share and learn. I would love to see Hawaii be the heart of the World and transform internally to support the same globally. Let us be a World leader in all aspects of life here on the Islands. Obviously if you do not understand these words and meaning, it is time to consider some training and create a new possibility that is truly affirmative and nourishing of Source and all spirit be it human, flora, fauna, or rock or mineral etc. Everything is One and interconnected in the external illusionary perception of the dream....and it is o.k. to not take that route too. It will just enrich us all in ways beyond what we currently understand or perceive if you choose "yes" to what is ultimately love. The Big Island General Plan 2005 supported communities to thrive AND supported stewardship of the land. The current 2045 plan is a reversal to the vision of the 2005 plan! Please throw it out and start using the 2005 plan to move the Big Island forward! Here are a some reasons to throw out the 2045 plan as it currently stands: 1. There are many insufficienlty defined terms. I expect minimally you are clearly identifying the meaning of