Biocide and the Toxic Link (part 1 of 3)
A case for genocide prevention thru the reduction of the fear of nature
(Eco-Mania) and increaseing discipline that aids optimal development. 
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3 ©2014, R. A. Jackson, MA, Psy, Ed,
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hours of support. Message From The Author
Toxins damage or kill what they comes into
contact with. While toxins sometimes
have temporary and selective benefits – they have cumulative and in most
instances, irreversible harms that far outweigh those benefits. For example, people get electricity from a
nuclear power plant to power their homes, but the toxic bi-products used to make
plutonium or bombs have half life thousands of years. This means we have created waste that can’t
logically be safely contained to withstand that measure of time and be shielded
against erosion from this type of toxic material. Ultimately toxins end up in the air through
test explosions, in our water table, and in our bones (Caldicott, H.,
1994).
Sure, it
would be inconvenient not being able to read at night, but humanity grew
without electricity before. In broader
view, electricity is a luxury and not an absolute necessity, in most instances
and could be controlled better with planning and management. The same can be said for most products on the
market. Practical
pressures, demands, and actions by a more informed public are, in my opinion, the
only real checks and balances that can answer the problems of ignorance,
excessive waste, toxic waste productions, and corruption. Safeguards against toxins are necessary
because terrible assaults are being waged daily through significant exposures
to toxins in air, water, which ultimately concentrates in food chains. Ignorance, convenience, or profits are not
enough, in my opinion, to justify our man-made ecological disasters. Weaning off the addiction to toxins won’t be
easy, but it’s the last stand between us and the growing problems caused by the
corruption of life largely because of the affects of toxins. Breathing clean air, food, and water that does not
accelerate your natural death or inhibit optimal development in any way is a
valid concern because risks of dangerous contamination are increasing and
compounding. My investigative findings show
that better safeguards, precautions and safer alternatives regarding toxins are
in most cases possible. Going
green and survival are becoming popular ideas globally. However, it is still uncertain how chain
effects stemming from humanities impact on the natural world will roll out over
time and how successful people will manage to address the various problems of
maintaining delicate balances for life on the planet. It is also
important to consider that people spend more
in imagination than in more disciplined and trained stable or rational states
of mind. Even the most disciplined minds
go through life stages like adolescence and old age and experience a range of
emotions and health conditions. With a
bit of maturity the memory starts breaking down and regression happens. With these generalized facts about variables
impacting mental activity, the way the mind works generally and makes errors,
the management of toxic materials, guns, and other significant life threatening
instruments of mass destruction should be more seriously considered. Plenty of accidents and incidents are on
record to reinforce the cause for interventions and measures to prevent serious
harm. Self Interests Versus the Greater
Good Central
to the problem of human destructive behaviors with regards to poisions are diverse
perceptions of self interests versus the greater good. Not only do we have the larger problem of a
lack of consensus to define the term toxin, we have a variety of cultures and
points of view on what constitutes a greater good course of action. Ideologies and markets compete and clashe
sometimes very violently over a number of motivating factors that explain why
toxins are used. The way in which this dialog
and violence is managed also varies drastically from group to group across
cultures and even within a culture. Models
of peace and conflict resolution can help, but those methods are often under
utilized and pervasive bias, ignorance, fear, and error tends to interfere with
reform movements that combat toxic waste productions or habits. Capacity, willingness, and ability are three
components that play a role in the debate and reforms regarding how toxins are
defined and managed. Well
intentioned policy without enforcement is hypocrisy. Knowledge of tangible threats without action
is negligence. Preventions and safer conditions can limit hypocrisy and
negligence. To win
victories for life means turning the tide in a way that inspires followership
and successfully mediates the necessary conflicts that come with change. In the 1940’s, Dr. Rachel Carson, founding
advocate for the Green movement in the US wrote, "If the bill of rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall
be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private industries or by
public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their
considerable wisdom and foresight, could not conceive of such a danger.” (Carson, 1962). This
type of thinking, like that of many humanist psychologists innocently over-estimates
what is assumed to be an inherent will to do good. In fact history and science suggest that the
motivations of human behavior shifts according to many variables and the
conceptions of what is right, what is good, and even what is real is often more
a matter of a popularity contest. The influence of the dominant motivating
variable which according the humanist psychologist, Abraham Maslow, is
determined by a hierarchy of needs. In
contrast, pseudo psychologist Sigmund Freud suggested a major drive in
motivating human behavior is self pleasure and the avoidance of pain. Studies
in obedience, reviews of phenomenon like the Stockholm effect, all challenge
this innate goodness or striving for betterment idea and suggests opportunity,
stress, and decision making is not as simple as we might like to assume. Nor is
the strength of moral as strong as many would like to believe. There
needs to be a balance in directing talents and industry towards productive ends
rather than destructive ends. Investing into civil offense infrastructure
projects- things that promote optimal social developments like education and
sustainable business efforts can help get the U.S. and global economy back on
track are important developing measures of progress relevant to benefiting the
quality of life enjoyed and responding to domestic deterioration threats. Perhaps think tanks can assist with this
effort to make proposals on how to transfer toxic industrial process over to
cleaner and safer processes. Accountability Limits on
Waste Accepting
responsibility, becoming accountable, assigning blame, and holding others
accountable while simultaneously saving yourself is a right of passage. Yet, the unintelligent destruction of the diversity
of life occurs while many people passively allow it, or are ignorant to
it. As the number one polluter in the
world, the U.S.has a duty to clean up our act and to take actions to minimize losses. When avoidance of corrupt and wasteful
actions and the denial of access fail due to actions of perpetrators, the last
resort is to defend oneself. Conflict
is a part of life, and while people have a right to learn and discover errors,
there should be limits in the types of significant errors people can make if
it’s wasting vital resources by threatening or harming life. While it may seem to be an odd concept, a cap
on waste and access restrictions to limit the most dangerous errors can and
must be more fairly and more precisely implemented. Extend Environmental
Protections & Policing There are
plenty of areas government clearly wrongly interferes in the lives of its
citizens, but there are other areas where government needs to go further such
as environmental protections and policing because people are not self
regulating in a manner congruent with fairness and sustainable long-term
interests of the greater society.
Belief and behavior do not necessarily
correlate. I suggest ethics are a
critical component in conditioning, but quality of life issues are deeply
impacted by human behaviors besides ethics.
Concluding that positive uses of toxins
outweigh dangerous, wasteful, or resulting contaminations would be naïve in
light of research and years of a wide range of observable harmful impacts of
toxins. In fact toxins almost entirely, except
a few noteworthy life saving uses offer no value added benefits that warrants
the level of destruction they cause in return. People will eventually begin to understand
that the increasing common health disorders and irregularities occurring in
human development like rises in tumors, disorders resulting from brain damage
caused by exposures to toxins, general genetic mutations and immune weakening,
are unacceptable trends that must be stopped.
A close observation of history reveals
humanity tends to err and being error prone is a proven condition of human
nature (Bogner, M. 2003) none of us are free from. Solutions stem from the acknowledgement that
the diversity of life is what best sustains us, that caring and sharing makes
enduring the challenges of life possible.
Responsibility Most
people on the planet are having a good day if they can manage to feed themselves
considering as many as one in eight are hungry (FAO, 2012). With so many suffering (estimated 20% of the
global population), there is clearly a barrier to the extent of caring extended
from one person to the next, or else this statistic along with the numerous
problems that exist in relation with this fact would not exist. This statistic suggests it’s harder to agree
on a common code of ethics, than it is to manipulate to fulfill one’s personal
fictions or act on instant gratification impulses even at the expense of
others. Self needs over other the needs
of others, or the ability to empathize, is of course impacted by many
variables. Conditions and personality do
play a significant role in how people respond to situations. The
unintended consequences of actions and policies are not difficult to observe. The right to bare arms for example was
originally a protection against tyranny. People generally don’t give guns to kids directly, but guns end up in
schools routinely as a result of guns being a part of life in many parts of the
world. Prevention of Harm Societies
that do not have firm support infrastructure to manage a range of mental health
issues are really not much more advanced than their Middle and Dark Age
ancestors. The most egregious atrocities are carried out by fellow humans due
to contexts of disparity, injustice, illness, ignorance, hoarding, access to
dangerous materials and weapons, abuses and inadequate detection or responses
to these need ridden individuals. The unfair
and inadequate treatments and uses or distribution of resources also causes
conflicts of significance worldwide which can be better addressed with firm
commitment to sustainable living commitments. Sadly, most of the tragedies are avoidable, but intelligence is often
not adequately dedicated to prevention of harm. Revolution Had the
founders of the U.S.emphasized harmony over happiness, we might have inherited a different
landscape. Now we have an opportunity to
adapt to the challenges of reinventing our identity in the pursuit of life,
liberty, and harmony. Genuine sustainable solutions coming from
democratic participation of empowered populations are making a difference. Working to preserve and share freedom and
prosperity is in everyone’s best interest. Restoring credibility in the Global Union requires tremendous stewardship
efforts that defend our ground for current and future generations. Some harm resulting from the industrial age
may be irreparable, but we now know prevention is giving rise to an emerging
sustainable age where the more responsible use of technology may prevail.
(continue reading part 2! )
References- Part 1
Bogner,
M. (2003) p.9. Error is behavior, A.P.A. Washington D.C.:Psychological
science agenda.
Caldicot,
H. (1994). Nuclear Matters. W.W. Norton & Company NY.
Carson, R.
.(1962). Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin. NY.
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