OTNP September 2024
Good morning!😀 Hope you all are having a wonderful month!
It is so easy to complain 😀 about so many things these days. Unfortunately most times the complaints have no real doable solution other than “change everything about government.” I believe that there is a _doable_ solution to our pesticide problems. I think there are three things, that are very easy, that we can do.😀 That will make things dramatically better for future generations. Just three easy steps
Elephants were not destroyed by pesticides … just thoughtless behavior and destruction of natural areas. Same behavior our US national parks are showing today
dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate is in the news these days. As the EPA is banning it after 65 years on the market. 65 years of the same side effects and damage to the environment that all of a sudden is now important to ban. We cannot continue to ban individual pesticides. We must and can start safe zones.
Roughly 39% of the fish tested had stored DCPA concentrations that exceeded their limit of detection, and the male fish had higher stored concentrations of DCPA than their female counterparts.[14″
That last line is interesting! DCPA has a different affinity for male versus female. I wonder how many other toxins we are spraying around have different affinities depending on whether you or your children are male or female? 🤔😀 And since most pesticides haven’t even been remotely tested in this respect, this is another example of why we need safe zones. We spent 10 years working to get Roundup banned. And we didn’t even get it banned. In the same 10 years hundreds of new pesticide products have been approved. And the adjuvants that are mixed with them are mostly not regulated (approved) at all.
the EPA said exposure to the pesticide, dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known DCPA or dacthal, can affect fetal thyroid hormone levels. These changes are in turn associated with lower birth weights and impairments to brain development and motor skills
Another source:
Studies have demonstrated that DCPA acts as a chemical disruptor by interfering with microtubule formation in exposed cells. This interference results in abnormal cell division. The abnormal microtubules affect cell wall formation as well as chromosome replication and division.[20] The key difference between DCPA and other mitotic inhibitors is that it often produces multinucleate cells.[21] It essentially kills plants by inhibiting cell division in this manner.[20]
Another source:
EPA said it consulted with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on “alternatives to this pesticide,” and presumably determined that there were “alternative chemicals” that could be used in chemical-intensive agriculture.—while not considering “alternatives to chemicals.” This is the framework that is understood to be EPA’s process that keeps pest management on a pesticide treadmill
Our Toxic National Parks will not tell you if they are spraying DCPA in our parks and on our endangered species.
We must get our legacy conservation groups involved and we must generate safe zones where all toxic chemical use is prohibited. I started to say indiscriminate or careless chemical use above but then I realized that our big PR departments would argue that the use of xxxx under “carefully controlled conditions” isn’t careless or indiscriminate. Even though by their understanding of carefully controlled conditions, it actually is.
There are more than 3,000 types of neurons. These neurons govern what we think of as our personality; language, social skills, empathy, and almost certainly hatred, jealousy, entitlement, animosity, and even certain social ills too. It certainly would not be impossible from my biological point of view that some of the pesticides and adjuvents being sprayed could effect these neuron types differently. The wars, political animosity, and even certain social ills of today could certainly be, in part, due to our increasing chemically toxic world, and not just people’s individual choices.
And if you think that because you get organic fruit and vegetables for your children that they are better off…. They actually may be more exposed 😮 Because adjuvants are unregulated.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/pfas-widely-added-to-us-pesticides-despite-epa-denial-study-finds/
I believe we _must_ create safe zones.
The sierra club, world wildlife fund, and audubon society are well aware of the issues that I am regularly presenting. They are well aware of the PFOS contamination of pesticides and adjuvants. Chemicals used even for organic crops.🤔 I would assume they can figure out the danger these toxins represent to our native endangered animals. Until they create programs and publish pesticide use statistics from our _wilderness areas_, I will continue to consider them simply _enablers_ of the pesticide industry, and I believe you should as well.
Three little easy things
