Daniel asks:
What do you think it’s going to take for more of us to grasp the
seriousness of our situation? How would you describe those conditions
that are going to provoke us to really change?
I think that all conditions are provoking us to really change. Change itself is provoking us to really change. Pissed-off pessimists screaming loudly are provoking us to change. Gentle optimists whispering examples… also provoking us to change. really.
news flash: ‘its all happening’
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Elisabet Sahtouris: A deteriorating atmosphere, a polluted water supply
(we are already beginning to fight water wars rather than oil wars),
soils deteriorating from erosion and chemical pollution, the
proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons, highly dangerous
agricultural toxins, and “engineered” plants and animals. Genetic
engineering has already caused terrible disasters in Canada, the United
States, and Mexico and is quickly spreading to the rest of the world. In
the United States, we can’t guarantee soy or corn as organic anymore
because pollen from genetically modified (GM) plants is blowing
everywhere and contaminating non-GM crops. In Mexico, wild stocks of
corn that were carefully protected as insurance against diseases
threatening our monocultures [large expanses of single-strain
agriculture] are all polluted now by GM corn pollen. This is a major,
major disaster, but you’re just not seeing it reported. In America, one
researcher was fired after demonstrating that the organs of rats,
including their brains, were shrinking and becoming leather-like after
being fed genetically modified potatoes. In our supermarkets, over sixty
percent of the food is GM now, with no labeling requirements and no
research on how it affects our children.Food-supply corporations jumped in with enthusiasm to create and sell
these products before we knew how they would affect either people or
ecosystems. Most “bioengineers” simply do not understand living systems.
All Earth’s species trade DNA among themselves, but they know what
they’re doing. You see, nature is fundamentally very intelligent, but
scientists think they can treat genomes like mechanisms, chopping out a
gene here and sticking it in somewhere else, like substituting screws in
machines. But genomes just don’t work that way. If you put the same gene
into six different people, it will express in six different ways. The
system as a whole is intelligent. Genetic engineering failed thoroughly
in early trials because genomes identified implanted genes as
inappropriate and edited them out. But now scientists shoot the genes in
under force and “Krazy Glue” them into place, so that the organism is
forced to accept them. Last summer, I visited a Dutch dairy farm where
they were doing very interesting research showing the disruption of
entire plants by a single gene implant. It seems that the whole organism
tries to protect itself, somewhat in the way flesh hardens and reddens
around a splinter.
