Crisis Percipitates Change
What if problems were created, or found, or fabricated while data was manipulated, all for a premeditated solution? Instead of problem-> reaction-> solution… what if the reality was solution->problem->reaction (premeditated solution)?
What if the things you thought you could not do before were things people used to consider over reach or invading privacy? Do you consider what crisis might best make those opposed reconsider the notion for a better sense of security?
If you can’t produce your own food and energy, you need money. And if you can’t produce your own food or energy you can’t make money. So, I reckon we’ll just borrow some money and go into debt… like, trillions of dollars of it.
Wooops, don’t look there at the mess those money laundering, insider trading, public servants have gotten us into, we better make sure small farms aren’t getting too uppity… I bet they have pollution in their soils and are using native water!
The government is offering to buy out small farms contaminated with chemicals. Are the big farms not contaminated?
So, these chemicals are found… everywhere? And it’s a challenge to determine risks? But we’ll assume there is too much risk for you to operate your small farm on.
They’ve been used for decades you say? So, what you’re saying is, the FDA and EPA are just now realizing concentrated chemicals out of their organic context are typically bad for us? Suddenly we can associate them with health risks? But I just linked to the EPA saying literally “it’s a challenge to study” because they are so prevalent…
See that right there, the FDA allows them for use in food packaging, processing, and cookware.
Reminds me a little bit of Dupont and Teflon. And similarly, I’m sure they’ve known about the dangers of these chemicals since the 1950s they are just now deciding to look at them.
Looky here, the FDA didn’t even obligate the market to discontinue the use of PFAS, but the market recognized the potential monetary damage by continuing to use a bad product, imagine that… anticipating the free market speaking and remedying the problem by providing a better product.
Here this Tim Whitehouse of “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility” is ripping the EPA a new one for the lack of action on PFAS and how badly he thinks they should be using the Clean Water Act to crack down on pollution.
You all know me well enough. I am not about pollution. I am not about chemicals. I think the government should regulate certain scales of production including their pollution and use of chemicals. However, I find it interesting how they use these regulations…
“Water is a publicly-owned resource in Oregon, meaning property owners need government approval for many of its uses.
“It’s a finite resource,” said Mike McCord, the Northwest Region Manager with the Oregon Water Resources Department. “The system of appropriation has been in place since 1909 in Oregon. It allows us to better manage the resource by having a permitting system.”
There are some exemptions, as those without a water right can use up to 5,000 gallons a day for commercial or industrial purposes. However, this doesn’t include irrigation, McCord said.
Christina del Campo surveys a field at the Oak Song Farm near Eugene.
Nathan Wilk / KLCC
For del Campo, it’s a frustrating double standard. She estimates she was using fewer than 1,000 gallons daily for agriculture.
“I’m not overusing water. I’m not overusing land,” said del Campo. “I’m just trying to have a small business and provide my community with food.”” (From above article)
Too much of a good thing, is never good. We need clean water. But the small scale market gardeners growing directly for consumers on small plots are not the issue with water consumption or contamination.
So as we crack down on all the pollution from big industry, that has ultimately contaminated the water and soil everywhere effecting individuals and communities more than the polluters, we continue on with the never ending collection of data while these data centers use up a quarter of a city’s water. And who is on the front lines fighting the water consumption of big data, the farmers. Not the regulators or the government. And who is most likely to foot the bill of all of this pollution? The taxpayers.
Naturally, the answer to the problems is to collect some more data on the subject. Perhaps we can use these genetically modified bacteria to be biosensors to detect harmful chemicals. Now we just need to figure out how to get them into all the food and packaging and that certainly won’t be just another type of contamination that 50 years from now we’ll have to be figure out ahhh, what to do with all these pesky nanobots and nano-particles and biosensors that are now evolving because we made them biological…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10069304/
We should probably throw billions of dollars taxpayer dollars to research and develop these novel ideas of mixing big pharma with big agriculture and big oil (petroleum based chemicals)! Ingenious!
Oh thank you AI god. How could we ever have fed and sustained ourselves for millennia on this planet without the Internet of Things and smartphones to provide us with Food Saftey 4.0. I sure do hope the government mandates all food producers to carefully scrutinize their products using nanotechnology, AI, and enhanced traceability while they monitor with their predictive analysis . How else could we possibly survive this filthy world we are damned to exist on? It surely wouldn’t make it totally inaccessible for the normal person to produce food if they needed to have biosensors and battle for water rights and test soil contaminated by products allowable by the governmental regulatory agencies. I’m sure it’s all for the betterment of your health and security. Trust the algorithm, friend. It’s not like we programmed it…
For those of you in the UK, don’t forget to register your chooks! They might get sick don’t you know. We’ll be sure to let you know if we need to force vaccinate or cull your flock, right oh chum?
And if you’re in the USA don’t forget to let the USDA know about your garden. Why should it be your garden when it can be the “People’s Garden”? Just go ahead and let everyone know publicly where your garden is and the government will be sure to let you know if your soil is too contaminated for your consumption.
And if you’ll just put these mandatory biosensors in there so we can use enhanced traceability and monitoring with predictive analysis that’d be greaaaat*, kk thx. >_<
*(hypothetical future scenario in case you didn’t catch that)
