[Pil-pc-oceania] Fwd: and now for the bad news ...

[Dan Rossi]

Very interesting read indeed thankyou. If anyone caught what bill was  
on about last night, we are in a conflict to save plants and  
ourselves. Most importantly the story was about this man, and teams of  
scientists who died to protect plants they collected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov 
, It's a very intense bit of reading still researching, so maybe  
someone would like to enlighten me :)

The world is heavily addicted to quick fix solutions like medicines  
for instance without actually holistically looking at situations at a  
whole. Hence adding proteins into genes of plants to fix a single pest  
species which allows the overbreeding of another and then back to  
sprays again. Instead of targeting the land and soils and its climate  
environments, they absurdly want to mess with the plants to grow  
anywhere they choose, like spending billions of dollars (and possibly  
government funding ?) to grow a plant  on glass.

I'm not sure about the hard facts in regards to pests and feasibility  
but I see bamboo (clumping type) as a more sustainable resource to  
replace cotton. And you can't exactly turn cotton into other products  
like wood so it's multi functional. They seem to want to turn their  
quick fix efforts into really hard work like trying to push a boulder  
uphill when the solution is looking right at them. What do you think ?





On 24/03/2008, at 5:17 PM, Robyn Williamson wrote: