Doctors warn exposure to omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals such as microplastics could play a role in dementia
and
the astronomical rise in neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s
You think? Or as Homer Simpson would say d’oh.
They could have left out the microplastics. And just left it as Omnipresent yet poorly understood chemicals. When our young people were growing up most insecticides were neurotoxins- couldn’t possibly have had any effect on us. And I just want to comment that in the next great round of pesticides some of them are designed to be molt inhibitors that can targeting DNA regulatory systems. And as a molecular geneticist I think that this is an exquisitely bad idea.
So what can we do? It is easy to just walk away or just throw up your hands and say I can’t do anything. But, I just gave a permaculture talk where I reminded people that permaculture was hard (If it was easy everyone would doing it well). So I have a suggestion that I think is doable; hard, but doable. I would like to see our national environmental groups the Sierra Club, World wWldlife Fund, the Audubon Society, etc. get together with more local groups; sustainability clubs, permaculture organizations, gardening clubs and scouting groups and _end_ the use of pesticides in our national parks. I think this is small enough that we could accomplish it. Our national parks are supposed to be for our wildlife anyway, why in the world are we spreading so many pesticides and toxins around them? It would be great if we could incorporate say a 5 mile exclusion zone around them also where people could go live under a reduced pesticide load. I think that the big pesticide chemical conglomerates might not be as enthusiastic as we might be with this idea, but I believe that it is doable; hard, but doable. The best to everybody out there.