"If the goal is to achieve greater sustainability, we need to better understand our world."  Amen!

I suspect if we want to understand our world today, where many Hawaiians oppose TMT despite a cultural legacy that demonstrably valued the kind of sustained inquiry characteristic of modern science, that we will need to come to terms with Hawai`i's colonial history.  I suspect we'll find that many of the social relations that traditionally supported the sustained inquiry characteristic of modern science were undermined by colonial institutions that promoted individualism over collaboration.

One message I hear from the protectors is that we need to look at ourselves in that big mirror before we turn it toward the heavens.

That's my $0.02.