GMOs will Unleash Global Killer
'Ecocide' across the Planet, warns Prominent Scientist.
A top scientist
and "risk engineering" expert is now publicly warning that GMOs pose
a dire, genuine threat to the continuation of life on Earth.
Nassim Taleb,
author of The Black Swan and Fooled
by Randomness, says that, GMOs have the potential to cause:
"An irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be
the planet."
His full explanation is presented in his public paper which
describes how even a small
risk per crop species can still result in global ecocide if
pursued with abandon.
And Taleb
explains further that, "The risk of
ruin is not sustainable, like a resource that gets depleted in the long term
(even in the short term)”.
He continues by
saying, “By the ruin theorems, if you incur a tiny probability of ruin, as a
"one-off" risk, survive it, then repeat the exposure, you will
eventually go bust with probability = 1." (Where "probability 1" means a 100% chance.)
Rational thinking automatically leads to skepticism of GMO safety:
This sober, scientific
conclusion is of course entirely rational and founded in clear thinking.
The self-deluded
GMO zealots and paid Monsanto trolls
predictably try to gloss over these risks in their quest for ego, profits and
power, but that does not mean such risks do not exist.
In fact, as Taleb convincingly argues, Genetically Engineered crops are specifically designed to
have a survival advantage over conventional crops, allowing them to
better resist droughts or infestations of pests or weeds.
This survival
advantage - if it is as real as seed manipulators claim - means genetically
engineered plants can out-compete
non-GMO crops in open fields.
The genetic
pollution which is already underway across North America will only get worse,
therefore; and there's no reversing it because all living systems - even
genetically engineered ones - have a natural drive to spread, multiply and
survive.
The result is that GMO crops will out-compete and thereby displace non-GMO
crops over time.
Does this matter? Indeed it does because the rise of GMOs is
nearly synonymous with the collapse of genetic diversity in seeds and food
crops.
You don't
have to go back very far in history to find examples of mono-cultured food
crops failing due to lack of genetic diversity:
- The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1852 was caused by
over-reliance on a genetically narrow food crop. Shockingly, one-third of the Irish
population relied on a single crop, and when potato blight (a fungal
microorganism) successfully attacked the crop, over one million people died from starvation.
- The current crisis in world banana productions is caused because
nearly all commercial banana trees are genetically identical clones.
- The near-collapse of Florida citrus due to disease is
also caused by a striking lack of genetic diversity across citrus
orchards.
A loss of genetic diversity is a pathway to global disease and
starvation!:
Any legitimate
scientist in the fields of anthropology, genetics or agriculture will warn you
that low genetic diversity is the first step towards crisis and collapse of any
given population.
When genetic
diversity is lost, the entire species becomes vulnerable to being wiped out by
epidemic disease.
This principle is irrefutable and widely recognized as truth among nearly all objective
and genuine scientifically-literate thinkers... except those pushing GMOs, of
course.
Those
denialists selectively edit
"scientific truth" to exclude any concerns that might question the
wisdom of displacing the world's treasure of seed diversity with
corporate-patented seeds.
The
Precautionary Principle is gladly thrown out the window when corporate profits
are to be realised from doing so.
Transgenic GMOs could cause catastrophic ecocide:
Beyond the loss
of genetic diversity, Taleb is also concerned about the possibility of catastrophic
transgenic effects which could somehow weaken the world's food crops in
ways human scientists never intended or anticipated. This will inevitably lead to a high level of Toxicity and Deficiency humanity.
Murphy's Law -
which states that:..anything that can go wrong will go wrong - is widely
recognized as a frustrating truth across physics, medicine, computer
science and space exploration.
However, bizarrely, magically and irrationally, it
is declared null and void only for GMOs, where the roll of the dice quite literally
threatens the sustainability of future life on our planet.
Taleb explains further that, even if the chance of any single genetically
engineered crop going wild and unleashing global crop failures is very small,
the fact that companies like Monsanto
and DuPont seek to dominate the
global seed supply by perpetually releasing more and more genetically
engineered crops means that sooner or later, a genetic catastrophe is all but inevitable.
If you play Russian Roulette every weekend, in other words, and there really is
a live round in one of the gun's chambers, sooner or later you are bound to
blow your brains out.
This is true
even if the revolver has 1000 chambers (with 999 of them empty); so that the
odds of losing seem incredibly small each time you play. (Interestingly, Taleb
uses this exact same illustration in his paper...)
Taleb continues by saying that, the cost of losing is so great that even
tiny odds of failure may not be acceptable. After all, we're talking about the entire
future of life on our planet.
GMOs may unleash mass global crop failures followed by starvation and
disease:
Mike Adams also
did warn precisely about this issue around 2012 in his "Murdered by Science" series of articles in which he opined that the careless
application of science – in fact, quack-science – could be putting the entire
existence of the human cosmogony at risk.
In fact, this
goes beyond medical quackery; because these scientists know perfectly well
beyond any reasonable doubt what they are doing and why they are doing it.
And he did
point out that GMOs are in the most extreme class of pollutants because they are
self-replicating.
Hence, it is
imperative that those articles, which have been widely derided by
corporate-paid prostitute-scientists to troll the web to attack reason, should
become a must read and researched even today.
Note: For the records,
Mike Adams is not anti-science; this he has loudly made abundantly clear over
the years; and, neither is any one of us in the pursuit to preserving humanity;
so long as the Precautionary Principle is adhered to.
While chemical spills can eventually be cleaned up,
and even heavy metals can be remediated over time, genetically engineered DNA
that escapes into the wild can never be put back into a box.
Self-replicating pollution is the worst class of pollution, far exceeding even
the risk of nuclear accidents wiping out humankind.
And as Taleb
says, "As humans, we
are ill equipped to understand the mathematics behind such risks."
And guess what!
He is correct: the human brains are not hard-wired to fully grasp the long-term
implications of self-replicating pollution.
In the same
way, most people are utterly incapable of accurately imagining the long-term
outcomes of compounded interest - a phenomenon which eerily reflects the
spread of self-replicating pollution.
How Dishonest Science Fools the Uneducated Masses:
Since humans
are not hard-wired to grasp the long-term risks of self-replicating pollution -
as posed by genetically engineered crops - it is all too easy for corporate-paid prostitute-scientists to
pull the wool over the eyes of the public and falsely claim GMOs present no
risks whatsoever.
This is why every single
scientist who is currently promoting GMOs is, in fact, a threat to the continuation of human life on
our planet.
By deceiving
the public with sleek advertising and; backed by megabucks corporate media promotions;
and in so doing glossing over the very real threats to life posed by GMOs,
these so-called scientists are directly contributing to the spread of GMO
genetic pollution which may end up in genuine catastrophe and massive loss of
life; which indeed in my opinion is their main agenda: Global Depopulation!
Imagine the global collapse of all GM corn crops. Or imagine the collapse of global soy
production. Every crop which is GMO has some risk of being wiped out in a
catastrophic manner caused by the un-natural manipulation of the crop's genetic
code.
The history of scientific
advancement, of course, is rife with huge
failures to foresee unintended consequences:Perhaps the
most important example of that is found in the current rise of superbugs across
modern hospitals.
Utterly
unforeseen by the world's top scientists and pharmacological researchers,
superbugs have now risen to such prominence in our health care system that even
the CDC has warned that the age of antibiotics is over.
Superbugs, in fact, were a Product of Antibiotics. As drug companies churned out the drugs to
"beat disease" - and doctors prescribed those drugs to hundreds of millions
of patients worldwide - the perfect environment was created for the nurture and
spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, many of which are fatal to patients.
As Mike says, he personally knew three people who were killed in U.S. hospitals
by superbug infections.
In August 2010,
experts have warned of a new superbug that is resistant
to even the most powerful antibiotics entering UK hospitals. It is estimated that hospital superbugs kill
about 5000 people in the UK alone each year and costs the NHS about £1 billion.
Superbugs are also
the new death pandemic in America, and they are currently killing 48,000 Americans each year.
Similar death
rates have also been reported in other parts of the world including, Canada and
Australia.
Indeed, they
were inadvertently unleashed by scientists with no intention of causing death
and destruction.
Rather, those
scientists working on antibiotics genuinely believed they were saving lives
with no downside.
At first, it
all seemed true - antibiotics inarguably saved many lives early on. But now, antibiotics are in fact the reason
why deadly superbugs have escaped the reach of modern medicine and genuinely
threaten the human race with incurable infections.
Scientists are not immune to making catastrophic mistakes that cause
massive death:
The Superbugs
lesson desperately needs to be understood by the self-deluded corporate-paid prostitute-scientists
currently pushing GMOs.
Importantly,
they need to swallow their arrogance for just long enough to understand that their INTENTION does not control
the long-term effects of their ACTIONS.
Just because they wish for GMOs to "feed the world" does not mean
they will. In fact, positive intentions
can and do frequently blind scientists to the downsides of their own
innovations.
In examples
after examples, scientists who believed they were pursuing technology for the
betterment of humankind ended up inadvertently contributing to mass death and
destruction.
The Manhattan
Project, Anyone?:
The dropping of atomic bombs – weapons of
mass destruction - on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a
catastrophe that was eventually contained.
The damage,
although immense, was “limited” and could not mysteriously replicate itself
over time.
GMOs, on the other
hand, are like seeds of mass destruction because they can replicate,
spread, conquer and annihilate!
Consequently, controlling and containing their trail of destruction may not be
possible once they are unleashed.
Alas! They have
already been unleashed.
Genetic
pollution is now widespread across our agricultural landscape, and the vast
majority of organic farms in many parts of the world have experienced some
level of contamination from genetically engineered crops.
Why so few people are capable of rationally discussing the ecological
risks of GMOs:
In a very real
sense, most human beings are cognitively incapable of participating in any
rational discussion of these issues. Indeed
rational issues that task our critical thinking capacity.
This includes
most scientists, by the way, who are themselves just as vulnerable to peer
influences and false mythologies as anyone else.
In the name of
"science," far too many scientists today merely embarrass themselves
by pushing obscenely silly arguments in defense of GMOs, claiming utterly
stupid things like, "humans
have tinkered with the genetic code of plants for thousands of years. Genetic
engineering is no different."
Although this is the most frequently-invoked argument by GMO denialists, it is
blatantly idiotic and grossly deceptive from the start.
Selective
breeding of various phenotypes within the genetic pool of a given species in no
way equates to cross-species DNA
manipulation which combines insect or soil genes with plant genes.
Any person who
even attempts to equate these two concepts does nothing more than affix a giant
"DUNCE" sticker to their own foreheads. (And yes, numerous scientists
invoke this silly argument every single day, across the mainstream media.)
Taleb also addresses this same issue head-on in his public paper, explaining:
Top-down modifications
to the system (through GMOs) are categorically and statistically different from
bottom up ones (regular farming, progressive tinkering with crops, etc.) There
is no comparison between the tinkering of selective breeding and the top-down
engineering of taking a gene from an organism and putting it into another.
Saying that such a product is natural misses the statistical process by which
things become "natural."
The Abandonment of Caution in the Quest for Profits:
The next
idiotic argument put forth by desperate corporate-paid prostitute-scientists is
that GMOs aren't dangerous
because there's no evidence they are dangerous.
As stupid as this
sound, it is also the faith-based argument of the chemical industry which
insists "all chemicals are safe until such time as they are proven
dangerous."
If this bass-awkward logic sounds familiar, it's because it is also invoked by
the processed food industry in claiming that all food additives, preservatives
and chemicals are inherently safe unless and until they are proven dangerous.
The question
however is this: have they ever allowed any independent researches to challenge
their postulations?
And as a
reminder, let us go back up to the current lessons of the cause of Superbugs;
with the warning that it is a “ticking time bomb”! With some
claiming, it “ranks alongside terrorism”.
Are there any lessons to be learnt from history? If indeed there are, then we must not be seen
to be creating another “ticking time bomb”!
What all this non-logic has in common is an illogical presumption of safety.
This has always
been the argument of the mass poisoners called scientists of our world.
Regardless of
the poison being discussed - BPA, mercury fillings, pesticide chemicals, DDT,
toxic heavy metals, triclosan, MSG and several other - its corporate backers
have consistently and predictably hired swaths of prostitute-scientists to
declare the substance to be "safe until proven otherwise."
The Tragic Kesson of Lead Arsenate Pesticides:
This
presumption of safety sooner or later ends very badly.
For over a
hundred years, the heavy metals pesticide lead arsenate was
"presumed safe."
Made primarily
of lead and arsenic, it was indeed very effective at killing pests that
threatened food crops.
Consequently,
farmers across North America and around the world sprayed it on their food
crops, producing amazing quantities of food... at first, anyway.
But before long, what have we seen: the lead and arsenic bio-accumulated in
agricultural soils; poisoning the trees that produced the food as well as the
consumers.
To this day,
soils across the world remain heavily poisoned by these deadly heavy metals,
which is one of the reasons why so many Superfood products sold today contain
such high levels of heavy metals.
Lead arsenate - just like GMOs - was "presumed safe" because it
didn't cause immediate death to anyone.
And according to
corporate-sponsored prostitute-scientists, anything that doesn't kill you
within seconds is automatically presumed to be safe!
And by implication, the chemical or technology
consequences are wilfully swept under the rug and ignored.
Corporations do
lean on government regulators until the cover-up becomes a policy. At that point, both government and industry
become active collaborators in the mass poisoning of the human race.
In this regards
therefore, Mike Adams breakthrough article, The Battle For Humanity is Nearly Lost, which covers the
conclusions below in details, is a must read.
In conclusion:
No self-replicating technology can be presumed safe if we hope to
survive:
Mike Adams, has as a result of the foregoing opined
that the human civilization may not survive the next 100 years.
He further states that our species is too
shortsighted, too much driven by insatiable greed and too easily manipulated to
survive its own corporate-led destruction.
He continues by saying that the quest for
short-term profits maximization by the corporate industry blinds nearly
everyone to the long-term implications; and that the fact that the masses are
already heavily poisoned by this very process makes it nearly impossible for
the public consciousness to achieve sufficient lucidity to halt the quickening
pace of self-destruction.
He does add comically that, “I only write this out of a fondness for galactic
amusement, not out of any real hope that humanity can save itself from
destruction via heavy metals, synthetic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and GMOs”.
He again adds that, if on the off chance that he was
wrong in his prediction of humanity's demise, if we are to survive as a
species, such survival will necessitate the global embracing of the
Precautionary Principle across all realms of science and technology.
In the light of this he warns that, even if we halt Monsanto and agree to have
all the criminal biotechnology scientists halted from committing ecocide, we
are all very likely going to be overrun by artificial intelligence before the
year 2050, regardless of what else happens in agriculture or synthetic
chemicals.
Just as with GMOs, today's most brilliant computer
scientists are wholly incapable of understanding the long-term implications of
the race for conscious machines and advanced AI tech.
Note: This
article was originally written by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger at Natural New
earlier this year.
