Luis Vanella * Too
missed time without concern of the negative consequences that were verified in the world. Different ecosystems are being altered in an irreversible, the damage is immense. In this context, driven by interests is discussed, based on a large shallow from ideology and not reality.
This mode of positioning children to the problems is an obstacle to finding solutions, because it undermines the possibility of implementing policies in the immediate and concrete strategies to not only stop the further degradation of the environment, but also allow us to ongoing remediation strategies. The issue is not minor, as we talking about the redesign of an important part of the national productive matrix.
scientific evidence "?. For ordinary people, science was always a source of knowledge that provided certainty, from which you can build an entire scaffolding positive high impact in humans, the quality of life, production systems and the relationship established with the environment.
Today, it is not. The diversity of hypotheses, theories and conclusions, coupled with significant economic interests at stake, has deprived the science of the necessary punch, the weight necessary to help set directions or lines of work indisputable.
Months ago, in a panel discussion in the Legislature of the province of Cordoba, in connection with a possible amendment to the regulation of the Agricultural Chemicals Act, the majority of the panelists, if not all, so subscribed and adhered fervent to the results of research carried out by a group of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), led by Dr. Alejandra Paganelli, that the most used herbicide in Argentina, glyphosate, can be related to malformations and spontaneous abortions in women exposed to the product during pregnancy. Data
refuted. I did not leave my astonishment when, subsequently, the current director of the Center for Toxicology at the University of Guelph, Canada, and professor emeritus at the School of Environmental Sciences at the university, Dr. Keith Solomon, said: "In the international scientific community, glyphosate is not subject of discussion on its toxicity and is an issue that generates concern about their effects on human health and the environment. "
more surprising, Solomon said: "The investigation of Paganelli and its working group was not a good job of toxicological evaluation, it was used a dose that was between 9 and 15 times the normal concentration. In addition, when experience in vitro, in Petri dishes, there is no way to wash the product as in the environment. They are totally unrealistic conditions. And the fact that glyphosate is injected directly into embryos of amphibians, to transfer its effects to humans, is totally stupid, like that decides to take a swig of pesticide. "
results Paganelli research not only were disqualified by Solomon, in similar sense said scientist Jim Seanborn, a researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States, who concluded that "this work would serve to show students everything there is to do a job scientist. "
But my sense of wonder was completely overcome when I agreed to a report from an Interdisciplinary Scientific Commission formed Conicet own "especially to assess scientific information related to the incidence of glyphosate on human health and the environment."
I quote verbatim the conclusion in the abstract (summary) of the report: "Based on the information gathered to date in this study, we conclude that under conditions of responsible use, understanding why the application of recommended doses and according to good agricultural practices, glyphosate and its formulated imply a low risk to human health or the environment. "
A problem of all. It is essential that society become aware about environmental issues, establishing points of agreement to curb environmental degradation and its recovery point. Without the social commitment, it is unthinkable to establish serious state policies.
The first consequence of social commitment must be to establish arrangements that enable secure suprapartidarios state policies.
Deteriorating environmental conditions are measured in decades and centuries, no matter who governs, no matter how many elections have been involved.
environmental policies, far from the facile demagoguery, should have the necessary seriousness, maturity and continuity that the issue requires.
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