With pesticides and herbicides we have contaminated areas of land that, big enough to be seen from the moon, that can no longer grow anything for generations.
Families near contaminated areas have suffered health impacts (such as cancer) across four generations and we now know from the sacrifices of rats in epigentics studies that disease effects from pesticides can generate deformed babies even unborn four generations ahead. There is 3.5x the average genetic mutation level, downwind from where a third of the world's cotton is grown.
82% of the wells in rural India have pesticide contamination, Persistant pesticides have been found to travel even to Artic regions, they are found in the body fat of humans and animals and even are transferred in breast milk to babies, and the toxic load everyone of us is exposed to is acculmulating, our consumption per person of food addivitves, persticides etc is actally calculated in kilos per year.
Many of the pesticides used in many countries are actually banned in the US and EU, but exported to countries where there is no way to safely use it. 80% of the cotton farmer's homes in India have pesticide stored in the bedroom in an unlocked cabinet in the bedroom and it's measured out in things like coke bottles, so you can see why children are included in the 20 000 unintentional deaths according to WHO. The average age of an Indian cotton farmer is around 40, while life-expectancy in the same country is 63,3 years.
Albert Einstein predicted we would have four years of survival lif we lost the Bees. Insecticides have recently lowered their numbers to third in Europe and America! Picture pesticide Food supplies are already lost, such as the 40 000 tonne fishing Industry from the Aral sea because of poor irrigation practices and pesticide use.
The cotton producing areas in India are referred to as the 'suicide belt' this is because Indian cotton farmers are unable to weather the failure of their expensive gentically modified crops, unable to grow the next crop from seed, unbelievably large numbers (200 000 in the last ten years) are actually drinking the pesticide!
The way we bypass biological systems with synthetic fertilizers means soils are depleted of carbon, so become nutrient poor, and making the land vulnerable to flood and drought, and erosion, making us even more exposed to the hazards of chaotic and extreme weather from global warming. In the sea areas bigger than whole countries are becoming toxic 'dead' zones, from algae bloom.
If we continue as are we are using chemically assisted farming, we have to recognise that it is contributing to the loss of species in such numbers biologists are calling it the sixth extinction. During a single lifetime half of the diversity of species across the entire spectrum will be gone. Ten year case studies have recently been proven use of synthetic fertilizer to cause species loss and there is no lower limit in its use for species diversity.
THE EFFECT OF PESTICIDES PASS THOUGH GENERATIONS
WHY ECO?
IMPACT ON FUTURE FOOD
THE CAUSE OF INDIAN FARMER'S GENOCIDE
Cotton production has already decimated the 40 000 tonne fishing industry on the Aral sea. Once the world's fourth largest body of inland water, the Aral has now shrunk to just 15% of its former volume. Its salinity has risen by almost 600% and all native fish are gone from its waters.
WE NOW KNOW SPECIES LOSS IS CAUSED BY USE OF SYNTHETIC FERTIZLER
