Everyone have a good weekend? Forget about that oil spill for a few hours? Good. Cause we're on Day 63 of that greasy bastard, and now I have another example of the same shortsightedness:
Apparently using Roundup for years and years causes the weeds to eventually become resistant and take over the fields even more than they were before. Genetic resistance?! Who could have predicted that?! Oh wait...anyone who has taken Introductory genetics. And now its up to the farmers to you come up with the solution...surprise!
*Side note: My new goal is to cut out soy and corn (unless they are organic) from my diet. Its going to be difficult, that shit is in Everything. [I'm also trying to figure out how to do organic AND Local meat, but its proving to be more difficult than I had originally anticipated].
Just another example of industry getting its hands dirty and not knowing how to clean them off.
"Oh, no problem big mining/oil/forestry company...destroy that ecosystem. Don't worry about it, just put a little money in this account over here so we can pay people to figure out how to clean up your mess while you make it. And then, when they don't figure it out in time and you permanently damage not only this ecosystem, but the ones surrounding it, just take a small fraction of the money you made, pay a fine, and be on your way! We'll take over from there, and be sure to come back soon! :)"
I can only imagine this is the internal conversation that officials are having with themselves when they approve some company to come and completely destroy our land.
When will we learn?? One of my biggest pet peeves is people who constantly use or promote the use of antibacterials/antivirals. If we keep using them the way we do we are just going to have the same situation as with the Roundup and the weeds. Except these are things that will make us sick. Very very very sick.
We can't just always look for the short term solution to very long term issues.
We can't just assume that technology will catch up to industry and learn how to fix their mistakes all the time...how about we just don't make the mistakes?
This is making me depressed. A bit of a jumbled post but I needed to rant because, as you can see, I am growing increasingly frustrated with these types of situations.
Anywho, Happy Monday.
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