Month: July 2023

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The future of our life’s foundations

Dear Friends of ELIANT,

On 5th July we received news of two worrying EU decisions: The EU proposes to further extend the approval of Glyphosate applications and permit the unregulated use of the new gene technology. It is clear that the views of the agrochemical lobby – supported by their own studies – have been pushed through while the alarming research findings of independent experts have led to neither a rethink nor a consideration of new approaches.

Glyphosate
Roundup contains the broad spectrum herbicide Glyphosate which harms not only soil life, the insect world and with it biodiversity, but also poses a danger to the human being – IARC the cancer research agency of the WHO, classes this herbicide as being “probably carcinogenic”. Many studies also confirm that glyphosate can have a toxic effect on the DNA and the nervous system and cause damage to the microbiome of the gut – a key factor of health.

Authorisation of the latest gene editing procedures without testing
Plants bred using new genetic modification procedures are to be released untested – even though these new procedures are also a deep intervention into the plant genome and risk harming the ecosystem in unforeseeable ways. The possible negative effects of genetically modified plants can only be kept under control through risk assessment, risk management and traceability. Without this, the foundation of scientific seriousness is abandoned. It cannot be replaced by statements to the effect that mutations occurring in nature would be identical to the deliberate, rapid, artificial interventions made by human beings.

Who bears the harm and the risk?
If this EU proposal is implemented we will all be carrying the ecological risk while the possible health risks in individual cases will be – as we well know – hard to prove. The ones who are demonstrably damaged by this are the organic and biodynamic farmers who can no longer guarantee food that is produced GM free. For consumers it means the loss of a vital and important alternative and with it the freedom to choose their food, the foundation of life.

The struggle between approaches
The implementation of this proposal by member states would once again mean victory for a way of thinking whose prerogative is to serve the ideology of growth and profit. And this, despite a growing public awareness that a new approach is needed in politics, education and economics which does justice to the complex living relationships of human beings and nature. In this fundamental spiritual debate we are called to ask ourselves: What approach is determining our daily life? What kind of future do we want to bring about for mankind and the earth? Where are we able and willing to change something? In ELIANT we occupy ourselves with these questions on a daily basis in the knowledge that we are not alone. Many others are trying – wherever they may be – to develop this new approach.

In this spirit we send warm greetings from the ELIANT team
Michaela Glöckler
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Climate Does Change Naturally

Glacier Bed

People who have never heard of Roman Warming, or of the manipulation and concealment of raw temperature data by IPCC linked establishment scientists to prove the “hockey stick” temperature graphs called Climategate 1.0 & 2.0, or that melting glaciers in Norway are revealing artefacts lodged in the rocks below the Ice, meaning it was warmer back in the Iron Age & Medieval Period than now, proved by carbon dating, or those who have never heard of the phytoplankton carbon pump, or of the Milankovitch Cycles, and all the other regular warming and cooling cycles, or of Solar Inertial Motion, or of the Grand Solar Minimum, say I need to read more science..

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WATER IS LIFE

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Hi everyone.

This is Ayse Göknur Shanal here.

We are fighting for YOUR basic human right on this continent. Water.

The entire continent’s ecology and river system depends on the Great Artesian Basin. Our single largest underground water reservoir. Once it is contaminated by Santos’ Coal Seam Gas activity on Pilliga Forest, there will be no turning back.

Once 850 coal seam gas wells are running, the farmers in Narrabri will lose their water permanently. Your food does not come from Woolworths & Coles. It comes from Narrabri. THIS IS YOUR FOOD.

To inform yourselves watch documentary The Pilliga Project. 34 mins only.

There is nothing more important than WATER on this continent. I hope you understand how serious this situation is.

Time to join the Gomeroi People in the most important fight of our lives.

We must protect our water.

Please share this.

WATER IS LIFE.
Time is of the essence.

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Unexpected species are colonizing rafts of plastic debris in the high seas

Barnacles on Plastic

Coastal hydroid and gooseneck barnacles living on floating plastic collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

Plastic pollution is creating mobile habitats for species once confined to the coasts.

It used to be that coastal species lived in coastal habitats. This makes sense. But now, a new study describes a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species thriving in floating communities in deep ocean waters. What’s their secret? They are colonizing ever-expanding rafts of plastic debris.

The study was led by researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa. They found a diverse range of taxonomic groups of coastal species in the eastern North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on over 70 percent of the plastic debris they examined. Not only that, but the debris carried more coastal species than open ocean species.

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/climate-ecology/unexpected-species-are-colonizing-rafts-of-plastic-debris-in-the-high-seas/