If agribusiness continues with its chemical addiction, grasshopper and glassy-winged sharpshooter problems are likely to worsen. Ultimately, mainly chemical corporations benefit. Perhaps the grasshoppers are a wake-up call to look closely at how chemicals unbalance nature and contribute to human-caused climate changes that threaten life, including humans, on the planet.
Grasshoppers and pest invasions join summer wildfires and winter flooding as
symptomatic of climate changes in process that could be disastrous for humans and the infrastructure and food sources upon which we depend, as well as damage the environment itself.
Shepherd Bliss
Shepherd Bliss owns an organic farm in Northern California and has contributed to 16 books, most recently to "Shattered Illusions: Analysing the War on Terrorism," to be published in July by Amal Press in England: http://www.amalpress.com
He can be reached at sb3@pon.net.
Please see his other Articles: “U.S. Western Forest Fires” and "Global Water Wars" in our Environment section and “World Hunger: Solutions”, in our Health section.
Please also read: “Pesticides and flawed frogs Researchers reveal first signs linking land runoff to deformities”, by Carl T. Hall
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/09/MN79035.DTL
Grasshoppers and pest invasions join summer wildfires and winter flooding as
symptomatic of climate changes in process that could be disastrous for humans and the infrastructure and food sources upon which we depend, as well as damage the environment itself.
Shepherd Bliss
Shepherd Bliss owns an organic farm in Northern California and has contributed to 16 books, most recently to "Shattered Illusions: Analysing the War on Terrorism," to be published in July by Amal Press in England: http://www.amalpress.com
He can be reached at sb3@pon.net.
Please see his other Articles: “U.S. Western Forest Fires” and "Global Water Wars" in our Environment section and “World Hunger: Solutions”, in our Health section.
Please also read: “Pesticides and flawed frogs Researchers reveal first signs linking land runoff to deformities”, by Carl T. Hall
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/09/MN79035.DTL