Monoculture and pesticide dependent agriculture is likely the cause of bee colony collapses around the world. It has already been demonstrated that bee populations have been negatively impacted by mass systemic pesticide use in agribusiness. Large acreages of single crops have often enough been cited as contrary to natural processes, contrary to the necessary condition of diversity of species which supports a healthy ecosystem. But this is wholy new level of danger given the role of the bee in the vital process of plant pollination.
In Europe for example you will find decisive actions have already been taken preventing the use of systemic pesticides. Comparisons of the bees' physical behavioral responses while on the organic v. the systemicly treated plants have been put on film. Disorientation and even abrupt neurological failure occurred for bees foraging on the treated plants.
The premise then: EPA regulation does not use the precautionary principle.
...and: The financial regulatory system in the US is also just as lacking in precautionary principles.
The entire framework of human practices it would seem is corrupted by this lack of forethought regarding sustainability. The principle of profit determined by the corporate sturcture of American business is likley the primary culprit here.
How did this happen? Well, for one thing the appointment process allows government to input conflict of interest into the infrastructure of regulation. At least as far back as the Reagan administration we know that regulation was frowned upon, that it appeared to government itself it only hindered American dominance in world business and trade. So in order to ensure this competitive edge corporate figures have been allowed in and out of government departments and regulatory agencies. And we know that this occurred during the G.W Bush administration as well as in the current Obama administration. (Monsanto)
The two realms of power in free trade economies have in effect merged into one force. Any postulations of checks or balance are a sham and misdirect attempts to find a solution. The government has merely become a front for corrupt and inhumane practices. Even the Supreme Court has resumed this bent of discontinuing scrutiny of corporate behavior. For example, there is no precautionary principle protecting the integrity of the Federal Election system from high concentrations of corporate funding now. See the recent decision: Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission.
The point here is that while we in America presume to follow democratic principles this very openness to activities has fostered a one-sidedness in leadership, one of monolithic corporate control of everything including governance―to the ultimate collapse of earth's life friendly ecosystem.
We need not list the many inhumane events such as political detainment, torture or genocide to call attention to the great horrors we are capable of? But these are the extreme result of this same obsession to homogenize ideas and peoples which has been the focus of many interest groups, especially the Christian right―and not just in America, but also in China where to be a member of a minority religion could mean imprisonment (China maintains a rather sinister combination of communist totalitarianism with profit-making principles of corrupted capitalism). Sadly we see it now in our educational reformers too. From NCLB to Race to the Top common core standardization, the idea of getting everybody on the same page of preparing for innovation and global competition for jobs has been tainted by the same corrupt profiteering that has begun the toppling of global economic stability.
So how is it that very few question this conflict of interest in America, our single-minded forging ahead with standardized testing and the privatization of education? How is it that our ethical environmental principles have dissolved and been resigned to accepting the patenting of genes and the genocide of the bees? It's because most of us are too busy entertaining ourselves to see the quid pro quo and the outright corrupted nature of our governing and corporate powers, nor even the harm being done each and everyone of us on a daily basis through the poisoned food web. So now what? Are we just waiting for Fukashima to kill us all off? We can't just choose to launder our problem with biodegradables and sort the recyclables, nor single crop or common core our way to fix this. The whole structure needs to preserve diversity otherwise you just get more of the same dirtied water, and stagnant minds.
This monoculturalism then must cease, for homogenization of anything is to give all a death sentence.
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