>Foremost is massive use of
>insecticides
all these reasons you have listed I completely agree so there isn't much I
could add to your testament.
humans have always been rapacious killers. they always overlook this fact about
themselves especially if they're on top. you drink that cup. as Jesus says, this
wine is my blood. I do not think this blood and soil connection bodes well for
humans or any future they would like to imagine. who but a non believer would
have a counterpoint for that? I discount the believers and their faith in
something after you're dead being better than life could be in the here and
now. this cult of death the believers are so enamoured with is a big let down
because believe what we may, when we're dead we are quite gone and I have not
heard an argument against that fact.
therefore this thinking is so destructive in the sense it tells them the
condition of the here and now is of no consequence when you consider the
big payoff after you are 'gone' even if they have mindlessly carried out
their biological imperative the fix is already in, so praise be to God.
you probably have determined at this point, I do not 'believe' any of that,
since we are living in the age of reason and science that knows a lot more about
cause and effect than Jesus did when he was trying to set a good example. you
would logically assume we would have advanced to embrace his concepts for
his father's creations and all who live within, after 2000 odd years, but sin
apparently doesn't fork much lightening it being so quick to be forgiven, in
short Jesus (et al.) is not the answer.
> Consider the oft quoted almond fertilisation.
the bone of efficiency, a square mile of tightly planted trees that require
thousands of bees to pollinate millions of blossoms in about a week, even so
the cost of a pound of almonds has already become untenable to some. I'm
thinking of myself here. who was it that said we should only eat 7 almonds a
day. well I would agree
> Since the agricultural revolution
Yuval Noah Harari the Israeli historian and admired thinker (by me) seems to
find the agricultural revolution has been found wanting in the balance when
weighed against modern learning and scientific analysis of its effects on the
progress of humans. now with its most recent variations that include
agri-business production methods GMO crops (and heretofore mentioned
insecticidal chemicals) made Pius by the need to feed an over populated planet
(our one great collective success as a species) everything has to be sacrificed
to make way for this production and growth to prevent global famine. the joke
being (not a funny joke either) the environment to produce food collapses
because of rising temperatures from all that agri-business and et al. green
house creating businesses and solutions we have cleverly devised to make life
better.
> Bees are one of many canaries,
well..how true and getting a bit more mileage out of my biblical references
herein I would say, the writing is on the wall.
>To quote something said by Tom McCall (Republican) on
>Earth Day in 1970: "Man has soiled his nest.
you would play hell finding a republican these days that said something like
that, they really believe they have a soul and in that belief they have
exercised their free will to make money at all cost and so have not only
squandered their own birthright, but yours and mine too.
thus ends the lesson.
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CK