2022-06-24
Agro-chemicals, fertilisers and pesticides are big, big business, dominated by big companies.
Of course, big business supported by big government is an almost unstoppable force where money speaks louder than votes and the transparency over the flows of money is less than obvious.
And the bigger (and thus more remote) the government, the more easily obfuscated the transparency becomes.
Whilst the big players seek to distract us with lurid (and some would say absurd) claims of CO2 trashing our climate, the damage being done to our farmland flora and fauna by industrial pesticides, and to the very soil itself by overuse of artificial fertilisers, goes unheeded - until the shelves in the shops are emptied.
The EU is an object-lesson in how to construct a government that reflects the priorities of big businesses (with regulated access to lobbying the Commission directly) rather than the priorities of the people (whose representatives in the "parliament" don't get to propose legislation but may only approve the legislation brought forward by the Commission).
Investigate Europe in their latest report "The battle over pesticides in Europe" illustrate this situation quite exhaustively.
One factor that they don't address however is the effect on biodiversity of the blanket of radio frequencies associated with telecoms that have been rolled out in past years and continue to be rolled out under the banner of 5G. This was demonstrated over 100 years ago when Marconi first set up his radio masts on the Isle of Wight - the resulting bee colony collapse disorder was well-documented. Arthur Firstenberg in his book "The Invisible Rainbow" makes a compelling case that these radio frequency EMFs are potentially very damaging to the health of many species of life.
The accompanying video provides the 'bare bones' version for those short of time.
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