As we spin toward ignoring Fukushima's outpourings of radionuclides and the USA government pushing genetically altered anything to burgeon the biotech industry, rather than deal with the limits of what nature can absorb, and man should sanely accept, we should know:
"The biotechnology companies are reacting to [the] weed resistance problem by introducing more genes into crops that will facilitate more herbicides to control weeds. This industry-led solution is causing a transgene-herbicide treadmill that will result in a doubling or tripling of herbicide use in corn, soybeans, and cotton [3 of our big four GMO crops, canola being #4, and now there is sugar beets and alfalfa to worry about]. Twenty-one weed species are now resistant to glyphosate [aka Round-Up], and 75% of those have been documented since 2005, despite company-sponsored research stating that the resistance would not occur."
"Several species have developed amazing biochemical ways to resist the effects of the herbicide," said J. Franklin Egan, doctoral student in ecology, Penn State. "If weed problems are addressed just with herbicides, evolution will win."' - - this is from Ram's Horn Issue 289
We have to get a hold of ourselves. We can't just have anything we imagine. There are limits and restraints we have to impose upon ourselves. There is what many people try to revere and respect: Natural Laws. Laws of the Universe. Even if technology seems so terrific, it can just do what it will next and that will be GREAT! No consequences. No apologies required. Even if I'm a CEO or a buffoon on the next high speed train to Chicago. More road kill, another seven million blackbirds dying from pesticides and herbicides in our heartland. More brain cancer in our golf pros [double the rate of the common citizenry] from the same toxic chemicals being used to green the greens, but pollute the groundtable water. Just like in Fukushima, essentially forever contaminated, as is the radioactive land and water around the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine.
Mankind will not be on the planet forever in its current state of evolution. We may devolve into a more mutant state, with our mutant food and mutating radiation from nuclear plants and chemicals that are the next magical ting.
Last thought from Robert Vivian page 183 of his "The Least Cricket of Evening;' the essay is "Why I Go North:' "What I've slowly come to realize is that going north is a kind of preparation, a ritual that is preparing me for what lies beyond even in the midst of such natural splendor, a splendor that cannot be fully understood by anyone, let alone possessed. I'm learning how to die in going north, and at the same time learning how to live. It"s teaching me that I don't need very much, that in fact I need nothing very badly - - and the more nothingness, the better. So I taste and nibble away at absence, I drink the slow-moving waters of emptiness, and I feel space opening up inside me, space that needs the company of other space, other emptiness. I never considered myself an upright chasm in training, and yet that is exactly what I am - - what I think we all are. Who knew such northern exposures weren't anything to be afraid of, that they didn't need to be filled , because it allows everything to pass through it?
This is why I go north so faithfully, and why north has become my stern and loving teacher, though it instructs without saying a single word, without asking anything of me except to go back again and again, however feebly, however imperfectly, because in doing so I am somehow released from all the things I'm not, back to that heartbreaking openness that makes everything possible, especially the ability and eagerness to keep on saying yes.'
Oh, wait, is that contrary to all we just said about respecting that the Earth cannot limitlessly endure all the weight and waste that The Economy requires to sludge up our rivers and Fukushima waters, and then the waters of our entire Pacific Ocean and all life within our greatest ocean? It could, but more likely, we want to be open and positive, so we can appreciate all Nature and life offers, say yes to less: less materialism, less ecstasy from excess, and more openness to the now, and the beauty that the north, south, east or west offer to our existence, utilizing the experience of those who went before us, and saving what should be provided for the future of all those who come after us.
Until
next time,
All the Best,
Conrad Miller M.D.
PS : I want to see "The Dictator' and Joe Walsh this summer, surf my life
away, and live happily until the day I die, preferably in an un-radioactive
ocean, more likely on the Atlantic side"
PPS : All Wendell Berry quotes are from "Standing By Words' pages 95-118; all Brewster Kneen quotes are from issues 288 and 289 of the Ram's Horn; all other quotes as noted
PPS: More info available, including free nuclear power e-chapter on
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