Can you give up chemicals for the betterment of humankind?

Question

If not what will you do for the betterment of humankind? Vote for Ron Paul perhaps?

Answer 1

Yea right!!! And you would give up make-up??? I think not.

Answer 2

What sort of chemicals? Many chemicals HAVE been for the betterment of humankind.

Those that are damaging I'd be willing to give up, unless they were absolutely necessary.

I'm not voting for that crazy Libertarian.

Answer 3

NO ONE HAS TO GIVE ANYTHING UP. ITS A SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT GLOBAL WARMING WAS'NT CAUSED BY MAN AND IS'NT NATURAL, BUT CAUSED BY ANOTHER SPECIE.

Answer 4

If we all gave up chemicals the standard of living of the world would decline so severely that billions would die of starvation and millions more would die from simple medical problems. Be careful of what you ask for. Nearly every item in your home has chemicals in it or was manufactured from the use of chemicals.

Answer 5

Agro chemicals ,and pharmacological`s  that get into the drinking water are destroying us and making humanity infertile,and sick.

But we use Chemicals today in everything ,that comes from the supermarket,in preserved food and any house hold item

Humanity has become addicted and dependent on Chemicals ,the way we look ,what we eat drink ,how we clean,how we move ,our medicines,how we make things,chemicals are in everything.

we are remodeling life by the chemicals we use.

But we should be more careful, with excess chemicals and waste.



Many things are interrelated so the answer at times seems to stray from the question

Chemicals in agriculture

Health of the  SOIL

Plants both require and secrete certain chemicals,

each specie is different .

If one plants all of the same specie ,

many plants consume the same chemical from the soil ,

and will TIRE out the soil in no time ,

depleting it of the chemical they require

At the same time they will all  saturate the soil  

with the same chemicals

and end up contaminating it .

To now fertilize the soil with chemical further counteracts Nature natural processes and the plantation becomes addicted to the chemicals,which leech down to subterranean water supplies also polluting this .

the use  of fertilizers.leaves Astregine(?) in the water ,this goes undetected and is unaffected by normal filtration processeses or water treatment that is done to get potable water.

Recent tests have shown that the tap water in agricultural areas such as in Missouri had  cocktails of agro chemicals in them compared to cities like New york  or Los Angeles ,there they find cocktails of pharmaceuticals.

The sperm count of farmers is far lower than that of city folks,.

But there is an overall drop in sperm counts across the nation compared to 50 years ago.

Only a billionth of a part is necessary ,to ensure s*x changes in frogs,going undetected by the normal antibodies.

Leopard frogs are becoming hermaphrodites ,they are the canaries of eco systems

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Pests and Plagues

Certain insects are drawn to certain plants,if the plants are all the same there will only be a few species of insects and far to many .and this will easily become a plague.

To again counter act with  chemicals,further  adds to the dangers mentioned above.And spraying for pests also kills the natural predators which we need

Natures response

will be to regard  a mono culture as a plague of corn ,for example  and sends elements to counter act this ,in the form of disease or predators.



Man AGAIN counters this with chemicals ,AGAIN adding to the contamination of the soil and the water ,which very quickly affects humanity.

So this type of farming is ALL the way uphill ,going against ALL the forces of nature

Costing billions of dollars spend on chemicals ,to undermine the health  of Humans ,with infertility ,s*x changes in the embryo,cancer ,skin .eye diseases etc,

and the Environment in general, with contaminated air ,soil and water,not to mention damaged eco systems because of the insect populations that are  affected by the wind spreading the chemical further than intended.

Diversity planting on the other hand ensures a variety of insects ,with a variety of predators that follow,rarely ending up as a plague,

As well as a varied chemical requirement ,and OUTPUT ,resulting in a balanced soil structure ,

And by NOT using harmful chemicals the mentioned dangers to humans as well as Nature can be avoided.

There are roughly 80.000 different Chemical compounds coming from modern society,that end up in the water ,the combinations are endless.and so are the effects

Man has researched individual chemical effects ,but the research for chemical cocktails has only just began.

Mono culture farming because of the Natural reactions and effects of Nature, entice  Farmers to use many of these chemicals.Often encouraged by the government

Agriculture is in places that are very close to the sources of water,

Bio diverse planting and organic pest control ,avoids the necessity to use these chemicals,and will help to some extent

That still leaves all the Chemicals people put in the toilets in the cities.

Another factor is that so many swamps and wet lands have been cleared to make space for more crops

these were the natural filters of the water courses .

in Australia some farmers are returning the trees to the banks of their rivers ,and they have stopped draining their wet lands

Permaculture is an organic philosophy which has all bets covered ,this goes into land design ,Water harvesting ,organic pest control ,Diversity ,companion and Guild Planting,using the natural energy flows as well as enhancing them,using niches,and a whole lot more

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Answer 6

But, if I were to give up phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, isoleucine, methionine, histidine, leucine, and lysine, I'd croak.

Ron Paul has nothing to do with chemicals.

Answer 7

my mum gave up and chemicals that were doing harm to humankind, in a way it was kindda cool but our life changed a he!! of a lot