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OTNP November 2025
Good morning lovely people.
I hope you are all feeling well today!

Billy Joel-We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide.

Children of thalidomide…
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Thalidomide is a chiral molecule, meaning it has two non-superimposable mirror-image forms with identical chemical formulas, just like your left hand and your right hand. These two forms are generally created during manufacturing and called enantiomers. Often R or S are used to differentiate but plus/minus, and L/R are also used to differentiate between the different forms.
(R)-thalidomide: This enantiomer is a sedative and has also been used to treat leprosy and multiple myeloma.

(S)-thalidomide: This enantiomer is teratogenic, meaning it can cause birth defects. It was responsible for the thalidomide tragedy of the 1960s, when pregnant women were prescribed thalidomide as a sedative and their children suffered severe birth being born with undeveloped arms and legs.
Thalidomide Survivors Speak Out https://share.google/LfJpmi4CQ9yUH1ILR

https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Just three easy steps

How are you feeling today?
#ChemFreeZones

Many, many, current pesticides have enantiomeric forms. Thalidomide had obvious and very quick biological effects (less than 9 months). If one of the enantiomers of a currently produced pesticide had a more long-term effect (years to decades) it would be very hard to identify that without much better tracking of the chemicals that make up current pesticides than what is currently being done. Virtually anything at all would be better than none at all.

I have a PhD in microbiology and was forced to study a little chemistry😃 particularly as it relates to biology. I have been railing against pesticides for more than 30 years. It is easy for me to criticize the widespread and indiscriminate pesticide use.
1) We spray five times the entire Gulf of Mexico oil spill on this country in pesticides every year.
2) It is impossible to fight the farm lobby. They are too well-funded and the companies too well entrenched.
3) There are more than 20,000 approved US pesticides! And _none_ are adequately analyzed in conjunction with others to understand unforeseen “thalidomide” effects of different combinations.

But, I recognize it is far easier to be negative than to be positive. I started looking for a positive solution. A change I believed would be doable.

I thought we could start generating non-toxic zones where people could choose to live. I decided it might be most effective to start at geographic nodes — with these thoughts:
1 Our national parks could be clean, green, environment machines. And they are not producing food or reliant on the farm lobby.
2 People could get behind protecting not only our children, but natural areas and our endangered species as well.
3 Our big environmental groups, especially the sierra club, audubon society, and world wildlife fund could get behind this idea because of the endangered species connection, and really help push this sustainable idea.
4 Non-toxic regions could spread outward from those nodes.

I felt that the first requirement was to get a full and honest review and accounting of chemical and non-chemical methods being used in the parks. To be able to maintain adequate records, I chose only three parks, Yosemite, Sequoia, and the Everglades.

Those parks were environmentally diverse and geographically dispersed. Also, the fact that they had larger areas meant that they could designate non-toxic portions even if they could not make the entire park non-toxic.
www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/our-toxic-national-parks/

I have run into nothing but brick walls from the park superintendents, their staff, integrated pest management departments, and a few big advertising but small thinking environmental groups as well. (whiskey tango foxtrot sierra club, world wildlife fund, and audubon society, among others). To this date I have received not a single valid credible response from any of them over many dozens of emails and several calls.

In 4 months none of the national park superintendent offices ever officially admitted that they even have ipm (integrated pest management) departments. Now they have started to advertise it like it’s the greatest thing under the sun. These departments are actually quite large, have lots of funding, and seem to me to simply be PR departments for the pesticide industry. I am seriously laughing about how hard the parks are trying to turn what they are doing positive.

Our Toxic national parks (OTNP) Communication Summary

While researching the IPM departments in the national parks, I discovered these very large, well funded, connected departments (arms of the pesticide industrial complex) were also working as a group at becoming a _mandatory_ part of pest control for all schools. I was horrified! The ipm system in our national parks has done nothing but block my attempts at communication, hide pesticide use in the parks, break their own restrictions on what they can and cannot spray, where they can and cannot spray, hide their “training” and certification programs, etc, etc. It is as if these ipm depts will only listen and talk to Monsanto/Bayer, Dow chemical, Syngenta and DuPont’s advertising/sales departments. They seem to me the very very worst of big government. And are working hard to be solely in charge of pesticide use in your child’s school.

Obviously it is very difficult for citizens to fight the money in the massive chemical industry. Three Martini lunches by pesticide salespeople and public relations flyers sent to City, County, State, and Federal officials go a long, long way to blind, deafen, and dumb government officials. Citizens rightly have concerns that (despite all the industry advertising) these toxins really are not “drinkable”, and really do cause cancer, and do “harm people and pets;” and maybe even our endangered animals too. However, our citizen concerns mostly go completely unheard.

I believe that there are three little easy things that we _can_ do to give our voices much more volume, start making a difference, and encourage some of our environmental groups to _stop_ being enablers and start walking the walk again.

What can anyone do about the pesticide use in our national parks.

The best to you all my friends!
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

OTNP October 2025
Good morning lovely people.
I hope you are all feeling well today!

Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity (one of the better nonprofits out there) just sent me an email

A mountain lion in Southern California was killed this month in a vehicle collision.

Her two cubs, just over a year old, face a precarious future without her.

Please help us save mountain lions and other species fighting for survival by giving today to the Future for the Wild Fund.

The mother lion, known as F390, had been tracked by scientists for two years. She was raising her first litter when she was tragically struck.

Mountain lion cubs are cared for by their mothers for up to two years, but now the orphaned cats have to survive on their own. Let’s hope they can do it.

If a mountain lion is ill from pesticide residue it simply cannot and is not as alert to traffic as it could be. If it had to lick toxins off its fur and is feeling sick it is simply far more likely to be hit.
Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Just three easy steps

Caffeine: I think the most interesting thing about caffeine is how much we all are aware of it but how little we know about its biological action (kind of similar to the thousands of “inert” chemicals that are approved)
You wouldn’t be allowed to spray your neighbor with caffeine!

California lists 12,398 _toxic_ products with “inert ingredients”.
We must stop this.

Unless it’s water, its not “inert” and the manufacturers are adding it for a reason. This is exactly why we have forever chemicals today. 5 years ago these forever chemicals (pfos) were “inert ingredients”.

Present day inert ingredients are being sprayed on your kids playgrounds, organic food, marketed for your homes, and sold to you in restaurants, and some are next generation forever chemicals.

How are you feeling today?
12,398 Healthy?

#ChemFreeZones

Watch “True Facts: Save The Turtle Spiders!” on YouTube

Best to you all.

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

Exposure to chemicals is listed as a potential driver of chronic disease in children in a new MAHA report, but critics say RJK Jr. has backpedaled on pledges to reduce pesticides used in agriculture.

Source: MAHA strategy flip flops on pesticides

Oh my.
Let’s generate some ChemFreeZones
Especially along the bird migration routes.

KEN COOK: We have been up against the pesticide industry for 30-plus years, and I know the mark of industry lobbying when I see it.

Yep
IPM departments are just pesticide public relations departments in disguise. Well not really that disguised.

Good morning lovely people.
Because we have a variety of new members, even from the Midwest, I would like to briefly go over why I started this newsletter #_WIST. As someone who spent an ungodly number of years studying biology and chemistry, I am dismayed by the flippant approval of many toxins by our government.

This flippant approval by the very agencies that are supposed to be regulating the industry to protect us is exactly why we have sick children and forever chemicals. Our regulatory agencies have in a few cases been bought out by $lobbying and $PR departments.

I could complain long and bitterly about how we have poisoned our children, our gut microbes, and our own bodies. The link below is really a very informative piece of journalism. I highly recommend it!

The best email quote of all time.
“Recall that is how we handled Williams, Kroes, and Munro.”
Even our own Cal EPA gets an unflattering cameo

Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Just three easy steps

But I realize that simply griping and not providing a doable solution is no solution.

I realized that there was no possible way I was going to be able to influence the farm lobby or Bayer/Monsanto) in any way. And so I started thinking about…

Non-toxic Or Chemical Free Zones
#ChemFreeZones for our endangered animals and even ourselves.

I decided to ask the national parks if they would be interested. The responses I got were not friendly. So I asked what pesticides they actually were using and the response I got was even less friendly. I asked the sierra club, audubon society and world wildlife fund if they would like to look into pesticide use in our national parks and how that impacted our endangered animals.

The response I got was… again… less than friendly. In fact, it was somewhat unfriendly. Game on.

I’m going to keep filing FOIAs to obtain pesticide information from our national parks. I’m going to keep calling on the sierra club, the audubon society, and world wildlife fund to come clean about whether they take money from the pesticide, forestry, and mining industries.
I’m going to keep calling on the sierra club, audubon society, and world wildlife fund to regurgitate their cache of hoarded public documents that would benefit the environment.

It is time people stopped blaming the government for our environmental catastrophe. We need to (should… even must) start blaming the actual organizations that claim to be our friends and to be defending our environment. Because they have claimed to do so for over 60 years now and what do we have today? 60 Tears of environmental destruction. And not a single square inch of our land that cannot be sprayed with the latest greatest toxin. It is puzzling. It seems that they don’t really want to protect the environment. It seems that they just want to generate income by telling you that they do.

I keep coming across stuff I didn’t know about DDT 😀
I knew:
The main breakdown product of DDT is DDE. It is longer lived and more toxic than DDT itself and yet the pesticide manufacturers say that DDT is “gone” in less than a month. Technically true.

But what I didn’t know:
Quote:
Dichloro-diphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) is the primary breakdown product of DDT and is well-established as an endocrine disruptor.. DDE interferes with the body’s natural hormone systems through several mechanisms:
Mimicking androgens: DDE acts as an androgen receptor antagonist, interfering with the normal function of male hormones.
Affecting estrogen synthesis and signaling: It can alter estrogen production and interact with estrogen receptors, leading to disruptions in female reproductive health.
Influencing other endocrine pathways: DDE has also been shown to impact other hormone systems like progesterone and oxytocin signaling, potentially affecting reproductive function and pregnancy outcomes.

Wow.
All of these effects directly impact our endangered animals as well!

Wow. How scary it would be if there were 10 other pesticides that acted like DDT.
Or even scarier would be a hundred 😲

Or a thousand….

10 thousand….

We now have more than 17,000 pesticide products currently registered for use in the United States.

And _none_ were ever, nor have since been, studied adequately with respect to combinations and effects other than some simple acute toxicity.

If you skipped over the

Link above I highly recommend it and I also recommend subscribing to the YouTube channel. They do some really fun things. Thank you Carey Gilliam!

GMO/Toxin Free USA (@GMOFreeUSA) posted at 3:30 AM on Sat, Aug 09, 2025:
Bayer spent a whopping $2.5 million last quarter lobbying the Trump admin on pesticide policy! That’s not chump change, it’s bribery! Big Ag vs. chronic disease reform. https://t.co/WtAZjMIJKD
This isn’t just a policy fight. It’s a battle for heart of the safe food and https://t.co/5JOBH9seSa
(https://x.com/GMOFreeUSA/status/1954128162746425774?t=FFVavt1fQs7zAB0-jV1IUg&s=03)

The sierra club is the oldest, most decrepit, and fastest failing of the environmental groups in America. It was started by John Muir in 1892.
And all the evidence says that he would be ashamed of them today.

The sierra club’s slogan is “Enjoy, Explore, and Protect the Planet”. Doing the first two is certainly not up to the sierra club, but the sc does offer some hikes. However meetup hiking groups are far more numerous than sc hikes now.

And because of the above, the sc is completely failing at gaining new _younger_ members.

The sierra club certainly doesn’t _do_ the last item (“Protect the Planet”) even though it likes to advertise that it does. The younger generation has seen a lot of PR by a lot of big business. The younger generations are a lot more immune to snake oil salesman claiming one thing while doing the exact opposite. If you want to help protect the planet sc then release your hoarded FOIA data.

The sierra club offers educational meetings… except the majority of the ones I’ve seen (Los Angeles) are about photo trips to somewhere far far away using up planet resources to get there. They do _not_ offer meetings or even website links on the most serious attack on our environment — pesticides

In order to find good sierra club info on pesticides you have to go past the one lonely broken link on the US site to the _Canadian_ Sierra Club’s website.

I wonder why? It’s just not possible that the US fraction is taking money from the pesticide, forestry, and mining industries.

I sincerely hope that the people on this list do not have any of the plethora of ills that seem common in the USofA these days.
Best to you all.

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

😃 Good morning lovely people. It has been a month and a half since I sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.

I asked for six things:
1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks

2) All and complete PUPS database records filed under each Park for the year 2019 whether or not the chemical application was in the park or outside its physical boundaries.

3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated “private”, “nonpub”, “nonpublic” or non-public.

4) All database heading classification/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks

5) Cicely Muldoon’s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.
The current Sequoia superintendent’s job description and current Everglades superintendent’s job description as well.

They have just updated me that the department of interior has forwarded it to the national parks (nps)

I had to laugh at a recent post on X
Dicamba in My Bloomers

By Someone Who Didn’t Sign Up For This

I planted marigolds with grace,
A bit of mint, a hint of lace.

My soil was sweet, my rows were green,
Dicamba you are very mean.

It curled my kale, it bruised my thyme,
It trespassed like a perfect crime.

Then OMG! I screamed in gloom.
It settled in the bloomers’ too!

My roses frowned, my bees got lost,
My parsley died at tragic cost.

The EPA said, “A OK”
And now my garden’s in decay.

What once was cotton soft and pure
Now smells like herbicide couture.

Bayer peeks behind inveigled veil,
While farmers file their third appeal.

I hung my knickers on the line,
The drift came in, said “Now your mine.”

So if you see me running fast,
It’s not for sport. It’s drifting gas.

Oh Dicamba, you slimy sneak,
You turned my bloomers into bleak.

But mark my word I shan’t forget

I’m not done protesting yet.

Poems belong to @GMOFreeUSA.
GMO/Toxin Free USA
@GMOFreeUSA
We advocate for clean food, water, environment and safe consumer products. Learn more:

The future for our children….

Child Care IPM
Spring Newsletter

Quoted:
May 2025
More than 3,000 people like you subscribe to DPR’s Child Care IPM news and updates! Thank you!

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CADPR/bulletins/3bcc274

Look at the pictures and think!

Look at the money involved and think.

This targeted at our children! By our california department of pesticide _regulation_. You know; the ones that are _supposed_ to be on our side — not tools of the pesticide industry.

1 Nowhere is a non-chemical control method encouraged.

2 Let’s be sure to _remove_ those spiders and obviously any bees.

3 Your IPM coordinator is your friend.😄

4 And do you know what your county vector coordinator will do?

This is a big new system in our California pesticide _regulation_ system (cdpr).

They _used_ to be on our side. This looks like a Monsanto public relations brochure. california department of pesticide regulation seems to be working very closely with the IPM monstrosity that is corrupting our national parks and taking over everywhere. And also wants to be _solely_ in charge of toxifying our/your child’s Public School.

Under this new “IPM management” the cdpr has:

1) removed the ability to download certain chemical databases

2) “Fixed” other databases so that they are corrupted and are essentially unusable.

3) combined mutually exclusive chemicals with entirely different properties under a single numerical code! This eliminates effective tracking of different chemical properties and effects.

God help us all.

We absolutely cannot and should not depend on the government to live our lives for us. We must take responsibility for various aspects of our lives such as basic security, medical care, food choices, etc.

At the same time there are situations that are far beyond individual control such as international relationships, larger environmental issues, and large scale societal conditions. Because the government is not designed to act in each of our best interest we must learn to be kind, gentle, but firm with respect to the things we believe are in our individual best interests. Allowing the government to be the sole arbiter of chemical information is most outlandish.

We must have access, free access, to the huge numbers of proprietary compounds that are being sprayed over large areas of the United States and invading our healthcare and food supplies. We must have access to this information. I am fine with companies having proprietary information – but not if it’s being used on more than 400 acres or being fed to more than 50 people. And certainly not if it’s done on millions of acres and without their permission.

The government has illustrated many hundreds (thousands?) of times that it simply cannot be relied on to be the sole arbiter of information that impacts our lives. We must be allowed to have access to the full story of environmentally damaging chemicals being produced and developed. In addition, we need to create non-toxic zones that are absolutely exempt from chemical industry manipulations and untruths.

This doesn’t simply affect us, it also affects our native animals.

The abuse of animals by our pesticide industry is another reason why I am closing this OTNP post by sharing a post I saw recently asking for better treatment of animals in our food production industry.

Sign the petition “Broken Cage-Free Promises: Demand Transparency Now!” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

We need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

1. Broken Cage-Free Promises: Demand Transparency Now!
   https://chng.it/W5fPXRMsDt

In conclusion:

The world is not discreet units of:
1) CO2 production
2) micro plastics
3) forever chemicals
4) pesticide use
5) animal abuse
6) hatred of one political party or another
7) secret government programs and data

All of the above items (and more) flow together through the pipeline of information. In just the past 2 months I have seen a huge (100x) improvement in accessing governmental databases. Yes: there are still huge problems as well, but I believe information is one of the most critical things directly impacting the seven items above. I believe that hiding _public_ documents that would/could provide information about any of the seven is not an accidental oversight.

I call on the sierra club –
the audubon society –
and the world wildlife fund to release the FOIA records that they have obtained and hoarded over the decades they have been failing our native wildlife.

And I would be grateful if _you_ would do the three easy steps https://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/just-three-easy-steps/ to encourage these environmental groups to start being environmental groups again.

Stop expecting political parties to do the work (or even have the same point of view) that the “environmental groups” _claim_ to have and be doing.

If you want to blame _anyone_ for the state of our wilderness let’s start with the groups that have claimed for 60 Tears to be working for the environment, our native animals, and you.

Ask them to stop hoarding their FOIA data. Ask them to put it _in writing_ that they are not taking any money from the pesticide industry, or the forestry industry, or the mining industry to hide the destruction.

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

data from 37 experiments conducted around the world. Together, these tested the impacts of 31 different pesticides on the social behaviour of 11 different fish species.

The evidence suggests pesticides make fish less social, and this finding is consistent across species. Courtship was the most severely impacted behaviour — the process fish use to find and attract mates. This is particularly alarming because successful courtship is essential for healthy fish populations and ecosystem stability.

Source: Many fish are social, but pesticides are pushing them apart

I really don’t think I need to say much more. The article says all it needs to.
I guess one more point would be useful.

Long before pesticides reach lethal doses, they can disrupt hormones, impair brain function and change fish behaviour. Many of these behaviours are essential for healthy ecosystems.

Terrestrial ecosystems are impacted as well. Some are affected to a far greater extent because the toxins are not diluted. And if an animal rubs against them it must then lick it off it’s fur or feathers and ingest them.

If our “environmental organizations” are not actively and aggressively combating the current overuse of pesticides they are part of our problem, not the solution, and they are not the “environmental organizations” they claim to be.

Just three easy steps

😃 Good morning lovely people. I just sent in my new FOIA request for pesticide information from three of our national parks.

I asked for six things:

1) Read-only access to all the _public_ information contained in the PUPS databases for those parks

2) All and complete PUPS database records filed under each Park for the year 2019 whether or not the chemical application was in the park or outside its physical boundaries.

3) Total number of PUPS database records for each park for the year 2019 regardless of whether the material within the entry is designated “private”, “nonpub”, “nonpublic” or non-public.

4) All database heading classification/categories for any and all pesticide database records particularly any in the PUPS database for each of these Parks

5) Cicely Muldoon’s job description as superintendent of Yosemite and the date it was signed or authorized.
The current Sequoia superintendent’s job description and current Everglades superintendent’s job description as well

To minimize the chance of any of the pesticides provided in response to the above not being on my lists due to my poor spelling I am asking for:
6) The valid and full EPA registration numbers for all the pesticides or adjuvants approved or used in any way by these three parks for the last 6 years

Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5

Just three easy steps

Some of you are starting to smile because I have tried to circumvent the unfortunate “mistakes” that the nps made when the they answered my first FOIA request. The phrase “willful ignorance and strategic stupidity” comes to mind.  _And_, since Cicely Muldoon’s office emailed me that I would have to file a FOIA to even get her job description — I did 😄.

The Freedom Of Information Act actually makes it incredibly illegal that she didn’t have it on hand and online to simply email me but many people worry about bigger fish. I personally think it is _the small everyday things_ that are killing us.

The nps answered only two (feebly) of six questions the last time. How many of these six do you think they will respond to this time?

And people wonder why I am fine with the national park service administration getting reviewed and (polished?) lately. I am 111% behind the rangers. I am about 5% behind the administration which often works more for big industry than you/us. And the only time the administration thinks of our endangered animals seems to be when they want to waive them in front of our faces for donations.

On another subject:
How many of you are worried about eating plastic? How many of you have eaten plastics, industrial soaps, and detergents lately?
Well, we all have eaten all the above and in rapidly growing amounts even on organic products.

Because many industrial soaps and detergents, and liquid plastics are designated by the EPA as “inert”. These industrial products are increasingly used on crops, including organic. Many are even registered by OMRI and specifically labeled as _safe_ for organic use.🥴

They are sold as adjuvants, surfactants, spreader-stickers, and pesticide enhancers. Quite a few are the next generation of forever chemicals. Many are already being identified as endocrine disruptors. Some have been linked to damage to our intestinal epithelial cells. And there is _very little_ regulation, or even information on environmental breakdown, for most.

Anybody with:
1 gastrointestinal issues?
2 IFB?
3 Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI)?
4 Gluten issues?

Don’t worry be _Happy_. It is not even possible that we have all been poisoned by our food manufacturing system; particularly the pesticide industry right?
It _must_ be our genetics.

Many, many people try to buy organic because they realize that our farmed food is contaminated. But what they don’t realize is that while there are limitations on various pesticides there are no legal limitations on the thousands of “inert” toxins and adjuvents being sprayed on “organic” crops.

The epa has designated thousands of chemicals as “inert” as of the date of this post.  I could have done many more than the four examples below but this post is getting massively long 😃

Four examples (again – designated as INERT chemicals):

1)
1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, polymer with 1,2-ethanediol and alpha-hydro-omega-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl)

(polyester derivative)

2)
2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, 2-aminoalkylester, polymer with ethyl acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, polyethylene glycol methacrylate alkyl ether and polyethylene-polypropylene alkyl ether

(An acrylic plastic)

3)
Phenyl tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane

(Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

4)
Siloxanes and silicones, 3-aminopropyl Me, Me stearyl

(Another Industrial Soap/detergent, likely next gen forever chemical)

Remember these are all designated INERT along with several thousand similar products.
And I ran these four items independently through several AI engines requesting environmental breakdown times….

Summary Table:
1) Modified PET with PEG
High (decades to centuries)
PEG may enhance hydrophilicity but not significantly biodegradability

2) Complex Acrylic Copolymer
High
Stable backbone resists degradation

3) Phenyl Tris(trimethylsiloxy)silane Moderate to High
Phenyl group hinders hydrolysis

4) Modified Silicones
High
Functional groups have minimal impact on degradation

My double checking and verification agreed with this analysis and also generated several additional comments.

1)… “essentially non-biodegradable and can persist for hundreds of years. The breakdown primarily occurs through slow photodegradation and mechanical weathering rather than biological processes.”

3&4) ” Siloxanes have stable bonds between silicon, carbon and oxygen atoms, and there is perception that no microorganisms can cleave these bonds in nature.”

Do you really want to be eating these?  Do you really want our national parks to be spraying them and then hiding that information from you?

As little as 2 years ago; close to a dozen PFAS’s were also listed under this “inert” category by the EPA.

These chemicals are anything but “inert”. However, categorizing them as such makes it much easier on epa bureaucrats and the chemical industry.

We must start getting basic information on the chemical problems we are spraying _everywhere_. I believe we must create chemical free zones. #ChemFreeZones.

I believed that our _Toxic_ national parks would have been a good place to start these chemical free zones.

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