"The chemicals to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the calcium and silica and copper and all the rest of the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creations of man's inventive mind, brewed in laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature."....."New chemicals come from our laboratories in an endless stream; almost five hundred annually find their way into actual use in the United States alone."
These are the reasons I don't think humans have a need for further research. We are trying to synthesize new compounds without knowing the long term effects they have on biological systems. This is the reason I think modern education is headed in the wrong direction. We push for new breakthroughs and new research like we're looking for some kind of hidden answers. My chemistry teacher was talking about his research the other day. He is trying to develop a liquid salt from lipid compounds. His purpose is to develop a compound that can be used in CO2 absorption, extraction of hydrophobic molecules, or used as a high temperature ionic liquid lubrication.We reward people that develop things like DDT and the atom bomb. Shouldn't society be rewarding the vegan ascetic that respects his environment? These are the reasons you will never see me working for a research company. We are doomed when we live a system that rewards this type of thing. More people need to take days off and spend time in nature, including myself. The answers to our problems don't lie in the laboratory. I'm afraid we will only realize this when we've polluted the Earth past its tipping point.
Page 156-157 of colloquium reader
"We are told that the enormous and expanding use of pesticides is necessary to maintain farm production. Yet is our real problem not one of overproduction"....."Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. These arose with the intensification of agriculture- the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop."
I'm going to beat this topic into the ground. We are doomed until mankind decides to resort to local and nomadic lifestyles which rely upon nothing more than the natural ecology. The spraying of poisons should be a sign something is not right. We should resort to things like the food forest at FGCU. Permaculture is the way to go.
Page 160 of colloquium reader
"It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth."
In today's world the money makes the decisions. We work our entire lives for a thing that has no real value. What's the point if we spend all our days fighting for a dollar and forgetting to live? People should become involved and voice what they want to be heard. But we aren't given a voice. The political system is broken. We elect someone to make decisions for us. When politicians make bad decisions for all of us we bear the consequences. The United States is becoming more and more regulated. If we keep passing laws at this rate we are headed down a path towards communism. The media only plays what they want us to hear. People vote based upon what they see on the T.V. And I don't know about you but I can make my own decisions. When are we going to start wising up, rising up, and uniting? If I can't breathe the air, drink the water, and fish the streams because of industry then life loses its meaning.
The people had no say in the spraying of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
"DDT spraying pictures." DDT spraying pictures. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
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