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read this material from Kioni
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Aloha,
I came across a stunning article in National Geographic Magazine several months back on the world population explosion, and the huge problems we will encounter in trying to feed all the new people, by mid-century. Like most people I have spoken with, I wasn’t aware of the problem at all. I have been researching it ever since, with a special view to how it all will affect us in Hawai’i. We will need to do a quick about-face and start doubling and quadrupling our farmland, and growing all the crops we now import, and bringing back cattle, pig, and chicken farms, if we are not to have thousands, or hundreds of thousands starving by 2050 in Hawai’i. I plan to spend the next several months talking about it with political leaders, education leaders, the press, and anyone else I can reach.
You are one of the real thinkers and movers in the community. You need to be aware of this and to incorporate the knowledge and needed action into your own community activities.
I am attaching my highly documented, easy-to-read, research paper. Please take the time to read it through. It will take about twenty minutes to finish. But do whatever is necessary to get it read--copy it, take it with you to the doctor’s office, the beach, the tire repair shop, the plane…wherever you can get a few minutes to read more. It is information you NEED to know.
Then send it on to your friends.
Dr. Kioni Dudley
92-1365 Hauone Street
Kapolei, Hawai’i 96707
Telephone and fax: (808) 672-8888
Cellphone: (808) 469 5713
E-mail: DrKioniDudley@hawaii.rr.com
Website: www.KioniDudley.com
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.
We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. (Barack Obama, 2008)
Please read this material from Kioni https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JubIic9hxM-nfVqFbKAbStITPMd9bJTNTn-cEYz_zg8/edit?usp=sharing
| Jul 31 (5 days ago) | | ||
Aloha,
I came across a stunning article in National Geographic Magazine several months back on the world population explosion, and the huge problems we will encounter in trying to feed all the new people, by mid-century. Like most people I have spoken with, I wasn’t aware of the problem at all. I have been researching it ever since, with a special view to how it all will affect us in Hawai’i. We will need to do a quick about-face and start doubling and quadrupling our farmland, and growing all the crops we now import, and bringing back cattle, pig, and chicken farms, if we are not to have thousands, or hundreds of thousands starving by 2050 in Hawai’i. I plan to spend the next several months talking about it with political leaders, education leaders, the press, and anyone else I can reach.
You are one of the real thinkers and movers in the community. You need to be aware of this and to incorporate the knowledge and needed action into your own community activities.
I am attaching my highly documented, easy-to-read, research paper. Please take the time to read it through. It will take about twenty minutes to finish. But do whatever is necessary to get it read--copy it, take it with you to the doctor’s office, the beach, the tire repair shop, the plane…wherever you can get a few minutes to read more. It is information you NEED to know.
Then send it on to your friends.
Dr. Kioni Dudley
92-1365 Hauone Street
Kapolei, Hawai’i 96707
Telephone and fax: (808) 672-8888
Cellphone: (808) 469 5713
E-mail: DrKioniDudley@hawaii.rr.com
Website: www.KioniDudley.com
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time.
We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. (Barack Obama, 2008)
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Aug 3 (2 days ago)
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Aloha, Amelia,
What a pleasure to hear from you. I’ve seen your name repeatedly over the years. It’s so good to find out more about you.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
From: Amelia Gora [mailto:hawaiianhistory@gmail.
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 4:12 AM
To: Dr. Kioni Dudley <drkionidudley@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Please read this material from Kioni
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 4:12 AM
To: Dr. Kioni Dudley <drkionidudley@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Please read this material from Kioni
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3:30 PM (15 hours ago)
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Mahalo piha Kauka Dudley!
This super report is the "Essence of Existence", yes and far beyond "Sustainability" of the established!
In addition to THIS, RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT, "potable drinking water" is being exported by three from Hawaiian LLC via alleged artesian sources on the island of Hawai'i, while residents of Hawaii Volcano south of Telephone Pole No.17 and most of Na'alehu are catching water from their 'toe-tongue" roofs of "Foreign" metals!
Coconut trees in Hawai'i are banned from bearing fruit for they were such a hazard to unprotected tourist.Coconut milk now water from Philippine Island and Thailand as well Mango concoctions of all assortment flow in from the same regions.
Hawaiian Monk Seals continuously vacation at Waikiki Beach because there is a major shortage of any moving marine life in the Sanctuary of Papahanaumokuakea due to the rape of the most Northern Sanctuary of the Hawaiian Kingdom via Federal Marine Permits to mostly "Foreign Commercial Marine Vessels. Like that of most river streams that connect to the Ocean, returning marine life to the safety "spawning" is the key process of reproduction, the sanctuary of Papahanaumoku provides the same haven. Just ask any Hawaiian Monk Seal and they will 'honk-it" to you.
Incidentally, forget abut 2050. The UN's Agenda 21 will transferring the masses to other "sustainable" regions to ensure the UN's Sustainable World Population of 500 million is attained. I understand citizens of the World will be promised 999 Year Leases 40 Acres Land and a family of jackasses to work it?
Everything in Hawaii has become"Foreign" for our own good. Everything except "FRAUD" that is, for no one or other entity anywhere can beat or even equal the "FRAUD" we have allowed to takeover, thinking of course it is for our own good. Where else can anyone go the has such completeness, except of course home with the Lord?
Kauka Kioni, I strongly believe your report should be on the menu of all organizations of where and what evers!.
There is a movement of Hawaiian Civic Clubs changing their course. Hokulea did more than Circle the World, just ask any crew member?
Count me in! Keep me posted of all Public Action!
kaulana na pua,
pilipo
Hawaiian National (Made in Hawai'i 1936)
Coalition of Hawaiian Nationals - NOW
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FROM BOB WAGNER TO THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES updated 08/06/17:
Why Save Ho'opili & Koa Ridge Farmland? Major Food Crisis in Hawai’i at Mid-Century - A Research Paper by Dr. Kioni Dudley of Makakilo
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11:04 PM (7 hours ago)
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Aloha e Kioni,
I happen to have the correct email addresses for the State Supreme Court Justices, one of the staff attorneys, and the Clerk of the Court so I sent them the following message.
Dear Hawaii Supreme Court Justices,
The attached 16 page research paper by Makakilo resident, Dr. Kioni Dudley clearly articulates why, except for Judge Pollack's correct dissenting opinion in SCAP-13-0002266, you were all so not pono for approving the destruction of 32-33% of Oahu's best farmland, considered by some to be the best farmland in the entire USA.
Your decision showed a total lack of understanding of the intent of our Constitution's Public Trust Doctrine. As a State Legislator in the 1970's, John Carroll knows better than any of you the intent of Article XI because he was very involved in the writing of our environmental laws, including Article XI.
AGRICULTURAL LANDS
Section 3. The State shall conserve and protect agricultural lands, promote diversified agriculture, increase agricultural self-sufficiency and assure the availability of agriculturally suitable lands. The legislature shall provide standards and criteria to accomplish the foregoing.
Lands identified by the State as important agricultural lands needed to fulfill the purposes above shall not be reclassified by the State or rezoned by its political subdivisions without meeting the standards and criteria established by the legislature and approved by a two-thirds vote of the body responsible for the reclassification or rezoning action. [Add Const Con 1978 and election Nov 7, 1978]
Your violation of Article XI supports the biggest fraud ever perpetrated upon our people since statehood, the Honolulu rail boondoggle.
Representative Colleen Hanabusa stated during her Aug 3 Kapolei Town Hall Meeting that the Legislature will likely require a forensic audit of the rail project during its upcoming special session. Such an audit will likely reveal systemic fraud, waste, and abuse on a massive scale going back to Mayor Hannemann. It will officially show what many of us already know, that the City falsified federal documents, lied to federal officials, and lied to the public. There were also violations related to urban boundaries and AG land that others are more knowledgeable to speak about than myself.
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We Can’t Eat Houses
Amazingly, while we are faced with these great problems for the expansion of farming, we are allowing developers to pave over half of the O’ahu farmland actively growing food for our markets today. Ho'opili is 32% of the O'ahu land presently producing food for the local market. Koa Ridge is 13% of the land. Together they comprise 45% of the land currently producing our food.
Amazingly, while we are faced with these great problems for the expansion of farming, we are allowing developers to pave over half of the O’ahu farmland actively growing food for our markets today. Ho'opili is 32% of the O'ahu land presently producing food for the local market. Koa Ridge is 13% of the land. Together they comprise 45% of the land currently producing our food.
Knowing now of the worldwide food shortages anticipated because of population explosion and climate change, and knowing of the likelihood that by 2050 there may well be no food available for Hawaii to import, and knowing of the great difficulties we face in quadrupling our production of food, it is unconscionable that we surrender this essential 2000 acres of active farmland for the building of unneeded houses. A report on housing from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and tourism in 2015 stated that we only need 27,000 houses on all of Oahu in the next ten years.30 We have 52,000 houses already zoned and ready to build in Central and Leeward O’ahu alone without the unneeded homes of Koa Ridge and Ho’opili.31
Why Save Ho’opili?
There are many special qualities about Ho’opili that should compel us to keep it permanently in farmland. It is the last remaining part of what in sugar times was called the Golden Triangle, so named because it so far outstripped other lands in the islands in production of sugar. Professor Jonathan Deenik has testified about nutrients in the soils: “Close to 90 % of the Ho’opili land is composed of high activity clays, which are characterized by very high nutrient retention capacity and high fertility.“32 Fifty percent of the soils come from two groupings: Molosoils and Vertisols. Of the 12 soil types on the planet, these two fall at the very top in terms of fertility in agricultural productivity.33 The Ho’opili lands need no soil remediation: their pH levels are perfect. By holding onto them, we can avoid a nine million dollar cost for soil remediation of lands to replace them. Professor James Brewbaker has also noted that the Ho’opili lands have minimal levels mildews and blights, minimal competition with weeds and thus less need for pesticides, and, for many crops, minimal levels of insect damage.34 Ho’opili also has plenty of clean water for all of its needs. Additionally, the Ho`opili agricultural lands are close to markets. And they have the economic advantage of already having in place the infrastructure needed to get product to market--such as cooling and cleaning and packing facilities, and the transportation to get produce out to consumers.35
Last Warm, Sunny Farmland on O’ahu
In addition to all of that is the fact that Ho’opili is the last piece of full-sun farmland on the island of O’ahu. There is no other undeveloped land on O’ahu that has full sun. Everything available is in higher, overcast and rainy areas. It is a common experience when one goes to buy plants at Lowe’s or Home Depot, that one finds some of their plants are in a shaded area and some are in full sun. Buyers are warned that plants that need full sun will not do well in shaded areas. The same is true of farm crops. Many can grow only in specific microclimates. For instance, a new effort by UH to grow chickpeas in Hawaii found that they thrived in some parts of Maui and the Big Island, but not in others. “Just a few miles down the road, Waimea was ruled out entirely as a possible growing site because it gets too much rainfall.”36 While it is true that strains of many crops can be found or developed that will grow in the rainier uplands, the common strains of many need a primarily sunny climate to thrive. As we start to grow the fruits and vegetables we now import, we will find many to be very picky about where they will grow. Some will need that sunny farmland of Ho’opili. Once it is gone, it is gone.
Compare Average Rainfall
There are many special qualities about Ho’opili that should compel us to keep it permanently in farmland. It is the last remaining part of what in sugar times was called the Golden Triangle, so named because it so far outstripped other lands in the islands in production of sugar. Professor Jonathan Deenik has testified about nutrients in the soils: “Close to 90 % of the Ho’opili land is composed of high activity clays, which are characterized by very high nutrient retention capacity and high fertility.“32 Fifty percent of the soils come from two groupings: Molosoils and Vertisols. Of the 12 soil types on the planet, these two fall at the very top in terms of fertility in agricultural productivity.33 The Ho’opili lands need no soil remediation: their pH levels are perfect. By holding onto them, we can avoid a nine million dollar cost for soil remediation of lands to replace them. Professor James Brewbaker has also noted that the Ho’opili lands have minimal levels mildews and blights, minimal competition with weeds and thus less need for pesticides, and, for many crops, minimal levels of insect damage.34 Ho’opili also has plenty of clean water for all of its needs. Additionally, the Ho`opili agricultural lands are close to markets. And they have the economic advantage of already having in place the infrastructure needed to get product to market--such as cooling and cleaning and packing facilities, and the transportation to get produce out to consumers.35
Last Warm, Sunny Farmland on O’ahu
In addition to all of that is the fact that Ho’opili is the last piece of full-sun farmland on the island of O’ahu. There is no other undeveloped land on O’ahu that has full sun. Everything available is in higher, overcast and rainy areas. It is a common experience when one goes to buy plants at Lowe’s or Home Depot, that one finds some of their plants are in a shaded area and some are in full sun. Buyers are warned that plants that need full sun will not do well in shaded areas. The same is true of farm crops. Many can grow only in specific microclimates. For instance, a new effort by UH to grow chickpeas in Hawaii found that they thrived in some parts of Maui and the Big Island, but not in others. “Just a few miles down the road, Waimea was ruled out entirely as a possible growing site because it gets too much rainfall.”36 While it is true that strains of many crops can be found or developed that will grow in the rainier uplands, the common strains of many need a primarily sunny climate to thrive. As we start to grow the fruits and vegetables we now import, we will find many to be very picky about where they will grow. Some will need that sunny farmland of Ho’opili. Once it is gone, it is gone.
Compare Average Rainfall
City Average Annual Precipitation
Kapolei (Ho’opili) 18.1 inches
Kapolei (Ho’opili) 18.1 inches
Ewa Beach 3.5 miles 18.1 inches
Waipahu 4.7 miles 18.1 inches
Mililani 8.4 miles 58.69 inches
Wahiawa 11.7 miles 54.67 inches
Waialua 17.3 miles 54.67 inches
Haleiwa 18.0 miles 54.67 inches
Waipahu 4.7 miles 18.1 inches
Mililani 8.4 miles 58.69 inches
Wahiawa 11.7 miles 54.67 inches
Waialua 17.3 miles 54.67 inches
Haleiwa 18.0 miles 54.67 inches
Kailua 21.0 miles 71.12 inches
An Extra Thousand Acres of Crops a Year
A world-recognized expert on corn has stated that “On the mainland and around the world, because of changes of season with long, freezing winters, farmers can grow only one crop of corn a year. In Waimanalo, limited because of the rain, a farmer can grow two crops a year. The north shore slopes can produce three a year, but the ‘Ewa land [Ho’opili] produces four.37 There are probably 1000 acres of prime farmland at Ho’opili that developer D.R. Horton has not yet touched. Because we can grow an extra crop at Ho’opili every year, if we keep Ho’opili in farming, we can can get 1000 acres more of food every year. It won’t be long till we will desperately need that extra thousand acres of produce each year!
Need Separated Farmlands to Escape Disease and Pest Infestations
A final reason why Koa Ridge and Ho’opili must be saved is to protect our farms in the future from spread of disease and crop-eating insect infestations. As the weather warms, in many places of the world we are seeing disease and pest infestations moving across contiguous farmlands, killing off everything, with no way to stop them.38 With no freezing temperatures of winter to kill them off here in Hawai’i, in the future, we will need to have separated farming areas, such as at Waimanalo, Kahuku, North Shore slopes, Koa Ridge, Ho’opili and Waianae, so that if an infestation strikes in one place, crops under attack in that place can be moved to another, at least until the pest levels drop to acceptable economic thresholds. Escaping pests will mean reduced pesticide application and increased yields once free from the problems.39
Action Needed to Save Ho’opili and Koa Ridge
When Ho’opili and Koa Ridge were approved for development, no one involved was aware of the world population explosion and all of the problems it would cause for Hawai’i. Now that they are known, it is clear that we simply cannot afford to lose those farmlands. Our future survival will depend on their availability. If necessary, in order to secure our future survival, our government must condemn all of the so-far-undeveloped Ho’opili and Koa Ridge land, exercising the power of eminent domain in order to keep it perpetually in farming.
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Yes, once this farmland is buried under tons of asphalt and concrete, it is gone forever. A massive Heat Island will be created, making the Ewa Plain hotter than now, and climate change will exacerbate the problem. Further, flooding will occur during major storms, including hurricanes, because the water will be unable to drain into the soil to replenish our water supply.
Ed Wagner, owner of one of the most energy efficient homes in Hawaii.
Need Separated Farmlands to Escape Disease and Pest Infestations
A final reason why Koa Ridge and Ho’opili must be saved is to protect our farms in the future from spread of disease and crop-eating insect infestations. As the weather warms, in many places of the world we are seeing disease and pest infestations moving across contiguous farmlands, killing off everything, with no way to stop them.38 With no freezing temperatures of winter to kill them off here in Hawai’i, in the future, we will need to have separated farming areas, such as at Waimanalo, Kahuku, North Shore slopes, Koa Ridge, Ho’opili and Waianae, so that if an infestation strikes in one place, crops under attack in that place can be moved to another, at least until the pest levels drop to acceptable economic thresholds. Escaping pests will mean reduced pesticide application and increased yields once free from the problems.39
Action Needed to Save Ho’opili and Koa Ridge
When Ho’opili and Koa Ridge were approved for development, no one involved was aware of the world population explosion and all of the problems it would cause for Hawai’i. Now that they are known, it is clear that we simply cannot afford to lose those farmlands. Our future survival will depend on their availability. If necessary, in order to secure our future survival, our government must condemn all of the so-far-undeveloped Ho’opili and Koa Ridge land, exercising the power of eminent domain in order to keep it perpetually in farming.
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Yes, once this farmland is buried under tons of asphalt and concrete, it is gone forever. A massive Heat Island will be created, making the Ewa Plain hotter than now, and climate change will exacerbate the problem. Further, flooding will occur during major storms, including hurricanes, because the water will be unable to drain into the soil to replenish our water supply.
Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" is a song about taking things for granted and then missing them when they're gone - like our prime AG land and the Pueo Owl that is being brought to the brink of extinction because of Ho'opili development.
Her song speaks about paving over paradise, putting up a parking lot, taking all the trees and putting them in a museum, and asks the farmer to put away the DDT and leave the birds and the bees - in our case leave the endangered Pueo Owl.
Have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones with its 10 guidelines?
The 1st is: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
The last one: Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
So please don't continue to allow greedy developers to destroy our valuable farmland and our Aumakua, the Pueo Owl that is being brought to the brink of extinction by destroying that farmland.
I urge you to examine your conscience and your souls, and then do what is pono for the people and the Aina by overturning your own egregious decision to allow the destruction of valuable farmland that will be needed as our population grows and as we need to be more self-sufficient in food production instead of continuing to be so reliant upon shipping food into our islands from the mainland and other areas of the world.
Sincerely,
Ed Wagner, owner of one of the most energy efficient homes in Hawaii.
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