When Einstein died on April 18, 1955 he left a piece of writing ending in an unfinished sentence. These were his last words: In essence . . . the conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings.

What we are seeing today is an “overuse” of Pesticides on Our Public Lands.  If the American Taxpayer, knew of the extreme uses of the Pesticides, and all that goes within them, more would demand it cease immediately. . .  Here, one example, of many more that do exist, is entirely based-upon false information and lucrative disinformation-campaigns; that when, the truth discovered, we find (i.e. covered up under layers of rhetoric) disease-ridden (TB et al.) adjuvants placed into darts, with the liquid form of pesticide, shooting the toxins into Wildlife and Wild Horses. 

These rogue government agencies along with corrupted non-profits who contract with them, refer to it as a fertility-control for over-populated pests; which is, yet another realm of disinformation campaigns generated exclusively by DOI / BLM, due to various reasons.  The bottom-line here is the obvious overuse of pesticides currently widely practiced by ranchers & farmers around the world, which has made the harmfulness even worse. Despite the growing awareness of negative impacts from chemical pesticides, the quantity of pesticide production and consumption at the global level has kept increasing annually, exponentially. 

We now see, as well as find in various honest research papers, Base-Line Information for many Ecological Habitats harmed, in many different and destructive ways.  These issues, well referenced, are not part of Global Warming, but rather, separate, and creates fusion within, and during, Global Warming Incidents.

This dilemma denotes a remarkable global phenomenon, that does exist right now —pesticide-dependence— which has raised long-standing challenges to global environmental-management and public health. No longer can we ignore potential hazards to environmental-sustainability, public health, wilderness area destruction, wildlife destruction and extinctions that have developed, and our Natural Resources that are being destroyed from Pesticide occurrence, as well as beside bad government management situations. 

We can no longer ignore, for various reasons, overuse of pesticides, are widely practiced by ranchers & farmers around the world, which has made our world landscape exponentially unsustainable, and very dangerous for life itself, in many areas; thereby, a creating of destructive chemicals and toxins, taking over our sustainability-complex of terrestrial and animal habitats.  Despite the growing awareness of negative impacts from chemical pesticides, the quantity of pesticide production and consumption at the global level has kept increasing annually.

Currently, in terms of public health, pesticides present a persistent and severe threat to human health, wildlife health, aquatic health, and through multiple collateral-damage mechanisms, including dermal exposure, respiratory exposure, oral exposure, eye exposure, and contaminated food and water consumption, among others.  Many people who observe, and have knowledge of this growing problem and growing impact upon Nature, grow leery of the profound Predatory-Profiteers, and other exploiters, and in particular, of their disinformation campaigns.

Pesticide users, and the general public, et al., all face health threats from pesticides. Extensive use of pesticides are currently on the increase, with all aspects associated with a range of human diseases and disorders, including various cancers, respiratory disorders, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, Leukemia, mental disorders, and neurological diseases, among others quite a few other less life threatening, but rather, sickly circumstances. . .  It may be also interesting to many, the persistent existence of highly hazardous pesticides on the market has been, and currently, also associated with suicide in rural areas.

“Researchers estimated that globally around 1.5 million people committed suicide by toxic pesticides from 1960-2018. Therefore, stepping off the track of pesticide dependence is vital to global public health. The fact also remains, we cannot conclude resolution to this situation currently, i.e. 2018-2024, but we find references to it, now hidden, and difficult to locate, even within and by experienced research people.”

“The evolution of pesticide resistance by insect, pests and weeds has long been taken as the primary natural reason for pesticide dependence and various new varieties of pesticides have been constantly invented to combat the genetic evolution process.  However, overemphasizing the natural and technological processes, although important indeed, may conceal more deep-seated socio-economic and political factors in human society, as pesticide dependence “. . . is first and foremost a social question”; technical fixes or regulatory changes will only acquire significance within the framework of serious social change’.”

Pesticide dependence has long been one of the major threats to environmental and public health. It has shown a manifest tendency of pesticide dependence across the world, which may well continue in the foreseeable future. It is of particular necessity to understand the underlying reasons for this haunting global issue. Technological-centered approaches including pesticide resistance and new alternatives have failed to sufficiently explain and effectively address the long-standing pesticide dependence as well as the destruction and toxic environments the “overuse” of pesticides, does create. — Written by John Cox, M.A. C/M 2024 (CopyRight All Rights by Permission Only)

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