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Columnist Rick Meis says that the conservation groups involved in the Gallatin Wilderness issue are forgetting why they were founded.

Source: Three powerful conservation groups have forgotten their histories and roots • Daily Montanan

August Our Toxic National Parks.

Brighten your day a little Carrol King’s Jazz Man

As the title above says: We _have_ to create safe zones. That is one of the reasons I started this #_OTNP project. I initially thought it would be very hard. But I must admit that I thought it would be a tiny bit easier than the sierra club, and our national park administrators have chosen to make it. 😀 https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

I believe that safe zones from pesticide use are critical to the environment and our own ability to survive on this planet. It is not as sexy as climate change. It is not as sexy as going to Mars. It is not as sexy as buying a new electric car. Worrying about chemical structures and chemical names and the chemicals making up adjuvants and pesticides is not sexy.

It is also not easy. Yes, I am reusing pictures. They seemed appropriate, and I have been worrying about these other (non-sexy😀) things!

What _is_ easy, is for some of my readers here to actively participate in three little easy steps to do. I am quite sure I can’t do this alone and that I need the assistance of _you_, and _all_ our so-called “environmental” groups.

I believe that a mean little, wildly efficient carnivore, that eats its prey alive, is _beautiful_ and desperately needs your help. Help in virtually the same way your children do.

In the last two decades America’s pesticide use rate has increased 500%.

If you are a parent, one of the most important things you can possibly do for your child is provide them with not more, but less pesticides in their world. If you care about your child at all, you must care about _their_ children, whom they will love just as much as you love them now. I believe that all of the Christmas /Hanukkah /Islamic /Kwanzaa /holiday presents _combined_ cannot come close to equaling a world for them with pesticide safe zones. Would that not be the best present of all time!

We need pesticide safe zones that have not been heavily sprayed with the latest greatest biocide. Zones that have the biodiversity that we still have today. Biodiversity that is less than we had yesterday but more than if we continue to let the pesticide industry rule as they have.

We should not be spending the time and effort on banning individual pesticides, individual classes of chemicals, or individual products until the next one comes along. Our national parks _should_ have been those safe zones; they are not. Instead, they are the personal playgrounds of the large pesticide producers.

We can reacquire _Our_ National Parks as safe zones; but only if we encourage our environmental groups to be environmental groups again.

Three easy steps. https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/

If you want safe zones.

If you think that that is even remotely a good idea.

If you care about our children.

then you must help acquire them.

ProPublica is an interesting publication and one of their current projects identified a group of “connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/political-nonprofits-fundraising-ftc-irs-527s-pacs?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1719543601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I highly recommend that you do not continue to waste money contributing to organizations simply because their name sounds wonderful, or their name has been active in the past, or they have a particularly good advertising department.

As always I wish you all the best.

For past OTNP (#_OTNP on X) issues.
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/past-ourtoxicnationalparks-posts/

But you may want to start here. www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

If you have received this as a forward and would like to continue receiving it please email me “vidaaquatic@gmail.com”
And if you would like to donate as little as $5 to the cause, you can Zelle it to vidaaquatic@gmail.com. thank you very much. Bob

How do researchers create the illusion of novelty in a result when the finding has a probability value close to, but on the wrong side of, the stated probability threshold – for example, a probability of 0.06? Talk it up, spin out a story! It’s the fairytale of Rumpelstiltskin in modern garb.

Source: Science and the significant trend towards spin and fairytales

Instead of donating money to environmental groups who aren’t, let’s donate money where it will do some good.

https://retractionwatch.com/support-retraction-watch/

This is why I love biology!

This is why I enjoy Smarter Every Day!

https://youtu.be/VPSm9gJkPxU?si=wUCsDXjdgX4RNOnl

It’s a pretty good description. And we used to do an experiment in our beginning classes where we would add a chemical to the slide that would stick the actual flagella down and you can see the bacteria body rotating. 😀

Best to you all!  Bob

Research shows ‘forever chemicals’ increasingly found in products as agency claims the chemicals aren’t being used

Source: PFAS widely added to US pesticides despite EPA denial, study finds

I have seen several places where they are unregulated for organic use.
Google *Adjuvant pesticide organic”

Adjuvants don’t have pesticidal properties of their own, so they don’t need to be registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state regulation of their distribution is rare.

If true, your organic groceries are probably higher in PFAS than other food.

We must generate safe zones!
https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/why-i-started-this/

Source: Digging deep—value of the soil microbiome unearthed

“The aim of the article is to increase awareness of the importance of soil biology in farming systems, as it is often ignored, particularly when compared to the traditional soil analysis where the chemical and physical properties are often measured and monitored,” says Dr. Shi.

“We hope that by learning from the past, we can harness the benefits of soil microorganisms in sustainable farming practices to help increase soil fertility, reduce environmental footprint and maintain or enhance crop productivity

Many herbicides are toxic to the microbiome of the soil. Also known as the soil food web. Many insecticides are toxic to it as well. We need safe zones from applied toxins. Our national parks are toxic. Why I started this. 😀 Why is Australia leading the United States in good science? 😀