Life is infinitely complex in ways even our most sophisticated science is still struggling to understand. Until we recognize that — we continue to put ourselves and future generations at risk.
Reading this is almost as scary as watching a live debate between two life forms -- one obviously good and useful yet noticeably declining, decaying, and dying and the other sinister and malevolent, a liar, and a threat to all humanity and everything good, everything sustainable. Both pose a dire threat. What to do? God help us.
Thom, I know you like Rupert Sheldrake. His son Merlin’s book ENTANGLED LIFE links the small things in life like bacteria 🦠 and fungi with larger aspects of existence. Everything is interCONNECTED!
“Fungi throw into question our concepts of indi-vidualitv and even intelligence. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can alter our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms- and our relationships with them-
are transforming our understanding of how life works.”
I believe there are concerns that genetically modified crops are threatening the extinction of bees. The mechanism in question is the insertion of bacillus thuringiensis (bt) into the genome of corn, cotton, and soybeans. The bt insertion makes the leaves of the crop poisonous to certain insects such as corn borers, boll weevils, and certain worms that attack soybeans. This has the effect of insect-proofing the crop but there is a major downside with bees.
When bees take the pollen from these crops back to the hives, the pollen is toxic and kills the queen. This leads to colony collapse. The loss of pollinators such as bees will eventually mean a loss of yield in crops to the point that famine from wide spread crop failure cannot be ruled out.
Chemical pesticides with all of their issues, usually did not have this issue.
The handiwork of George H.W. Bush in strong arming the EPA to agree that there was no need for eco-toxicology, environmental fate testing for these genetic modifications may well have very serious consequences. It may have been politically expedient in the 1980s and 1990s to be “business friendly” towards a few agribusiness companies, but the long term risk to humanity is significant.
"Nature is an entangled, shape-shifting mirage of organisms. The plants are not who we thought they were, and we are not who we think we are. We are a loose coalition of microbes. We are mutualism in action."
Plants 🌱 like planets 🪐 are living aspects of nature.
“The simple reality is that our planet is a single living organism, as much as our bodies are.”
“The simple reality is that our planet is a single living organism, as much as our bodies are.”
The UNIverse is alive.
All the things in nature are together in one place.
Each thing is moved by nature’s pattern.
Signals give direction.
The whole divides in to parts. 🧬
The parts move around and in and out of each other.
Like water flowing in rivers 💦 and oceans 🌊 and changing into vapor 💨 and snow ⛄️❄️and ice 🧊.
The water flows in and out of creatures 🐿️ and plants 🌱.
Every part is circulating, round and round. 💫☄️🪐⛈️🦠🧬🌪️
Things unFold 🌱 then enFold 🍂 .
Everything in the UNIverse fits 🧩 because
each part belongs to the ONE whole cosmic song 🎻 and dance 💃🏻.
Reading this is almost as scary as watching a live debate between two life forms -- one obviously good and useful yet noticeably declining, decaying, and dying and the other sinister and malevolent, a liar, and a threat to all humanity and everything good, everything sustainable. Both pose a dire threat. What to do? God help us.
Thom, I know you like Rupert Sheldrake. His son Merlin’s book ENTANGLED LIFE links the small things in life like bacteria 🦠 and fungi with larger aspects of existence. Everything is interCONNECTED!
“Fungi throw into question our concepts of indi-vidualitv and even intelligence. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can alter our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms- and our relationships with them-
are transforming our understanding of how life works.”
I believe there are concerns that genetically modified crops are threatening the extinction of bees. The mechanism in question is the insertion of bacillus thuringiensis (bt) into the genome of corn, cotton, and soybeans. The bt insertion makes the leaves of the crop poisonous to certain insects such as corn borers, boll weevils, and certain worms that attack soybeans. This has the effect of insect-proofing the crop but there is a major downside with bees.
When bees take the pollen from these crops back to the hives, the pollen is toxic and kills the queen. This leads to colony collapse. The loss of pollinators such as bees will eventually mean a loss of yield in crops to the point that famine from wide spread crop failure cannot be ruled out.
Chemical pesticides with all of their issues, usually did not have this issue.
The handiwork of George H.W. Bush in strong arming the EPA to agree that there was no need for eco-toxicology, environmental fate testing for these genetic modifications may well have very serious consequences. It may have been politically expedient in the 1980s and 1990s to be “business friendly” towards a few agribusiness companies, but the long term risk to humanity is significant.
Thom,
This post on plants 🌱 further describes the intelligence of nature.
How plants think 💭 and send SIGNALS.
And supports your comment:
“ Life is infinitely complex in ways even our most sophisticated science is still struggling to understand.”
A Masterclass in Living to One's Fullest, Weirdest Potential
By BILL DAVISON
https://billdavison.substack.com/p/a-masterclass-in-living-to-ones-fullest
"Nature is an entangled, shape-shifting mirage of organisms. The plants are not who we thought they were, and we are not who we think we are. We are a loose coalition of microbes. We are mutualism in action."
Plants 🌱 like planets 🪐 are living aspects of nature.
“The simple reality is that our planet is a single living organism, as much as our bodies are.”
—Thom Hartmann