Month: May 2017

After re-reading my last post, and my 2 step solution to prevent global annihilation, I developed a simple plan to eliminate the largest contributor to global warming, CO2 emissions and pollution by eliminating the gas powered auto.  That one was simple.

But how to curb population growth?   We can’t enact a “Hand Maidens Tale”  (no I’m not watching a girly show).  Or try the Chinese method.   Maybe a lottery?

No, I’ve accepted the fact that the easiest, quickest way to reduce the population is by going to war.

Or a maybe plague!  We’d make some money with a plague of locusts now wouldn’t we!  Or is that on the label?   Check with the PMRA.

But I’m leaning towards war…

And not just a skirmish in some god forsaken place in the desert (I do feel for those people living in an inhospitable land, and centuries of fighting over nothing except whose religion is right).

I’m talking full blown nuclear disaster.

Face it, we can’t argue or agree to that….ridiculous I know.  But when the livable area of Earth starts to diminish due to climate change, pollution, over crowding and poverty something is going to snap.  And someone will push the button.

But what will really happen is the population will reach a point that more people will live in poverty, low health care standards, horrible housing and sanitation, and more crowding.  Look at the slums in Rio, or Cairo.

Rats, Roaches, Filth…sounds like places in Toronto…

Someone in some godforsaken little hut will develop a “super bug” and I’m not talking insects. And we’ll see large scale disaster.   AIDS, West Nile, SARS, Ebola, Zika…one of these will develop we can’t find a cure for.  A new strain of influenza….

And it will move across the planet swiftly.  Sounds pretty ominous.  It will be.

Better than a bomb?  Guess it depends on whose side you on.

But it’s not all doom and gloom!  I did come up with a fix for the pollution problem and global warming.

Get rid of the gas powered vehicles.  Period.   (look at what that does to the power shift in the world by cutting gasoline consumption by 90%).

The CO2 emissions are the leading cause of pollution and global warming.  Might not be true, but now it is cuz I typed it!

So why are we divesting and diverting all of our efforts to something else???  Really.  We have too many “causes”.  Pink ribbons and yellow flags and elastic wrist bands in every color of the rainbow.   Save the Rainbows even!

Face it, if the tree huggers and major communities of the world got together and implemented an “electric” only policy, it could very well happen.  Take all those tree hugger riches aimed at saving the spotted owl, the spotted ocelot, the spotted Tasmanian sparrow and the drug addict I spotted on the street, and put it to this one cause.

Simply phase it in over 10 years by issuing new tags to an increasingly higher % of electrics only.   Getting to the point to where all tags are for electric only.

So you can’t drive 1200 miles in 10 hours to see Grandma.   She doesn’t want you to bother her anyway!  She’s got bingo booked until she wins and dies.

No gasoline powered car over 10 years old would be issued a tag…voila!

Done Deal!!!!!

I’ve almost saved the Planet!

Just gotta work on that population thingy….suggestions anyone?

But I’ve got an idea….

Being a bug man we often talk about colony collapse of certain species.   Primarily ants, but also bees, termites and Amish.

But speaking of Amish, I have been watching and reading the news coming from the likes of the WHO, Bono, the UN, WWF, WWE and WTF, plus the most intelligent man on the planet, Dr. Stephen Hawkins.

It seems a pretty well united train of thought that the Human species – on Earth anyway – will collapse in 100 years.   Wow…. 100 years.

That aint a lot of time folks.   4 or 5 generations.   My grandkids grandkid.

In essence, my 6 month old grandson, might very well live long enough to see the end of the human race.

So when we deplete our accessible “nesting colony” on Mother Earth, we will need to make winged reproductives and find another place to live…

Real simple not?  Hasn’t the government (har har) got this all planned out?

Well they do have plans, but not in the way your thinking.

We worry about pesticides ruining our food, saving the whales, the price of bread.  NAFTA and soft wood.   Children’s education, terrorists, Aunt Betty’s surprise part, your expanding waist, murderers in nursing homes.  And making more money.

Really really really….we should be thinking of 2 things and 2 things only.

1. Reducing the population.
2. Eliminating the carbon breathing dragons we call automobiles.

That’s it.   Plain and simple.  Quit populating and polluting.  Way too easy.

150,000 people die every day.   And in the industrial nations that’s 90% from old age.

BUT  – 400,000 new babies are born every day.  Net affect?   More and more and more.  4 new lives to replace 1.  Everyday.

Who is speaking up and saying NO MORE BABIES.  We don’t need a reduction from 400,000 to 200,000.  We need zero.  Zip, nil.   Simple

And I just had…well not me personally…my new grandson born.   So besides him I mean.   And one of our girls is expecting here, so not her of course.

But everyone else…

And c’mon people…4 cars for a four family household?  We all know the automobile is the worst polluter traveling the planet.  And has we populate the planet with more people….

What do you think causes that gray green smog to hang over the city?

To hell with big auto…the new rule should be 1 car per address, unless you run electric.   See how fast the electric car would be improved.  Might even fly!

But no one is going to do this, they would rather worry about the little things.  GMO corn flakes and neonics killing honey bees.

There’s only 2 things to worry about and fix…

Oh, maybe 3 things.

The 3rd thing you should worry about might already be sitting in the White House.

When the population reaches an insurmountable number, the politicians re-act with their only answer…

Full scale war.

It’s even good for the economy, employment and the Big 3 can make more tanks, Humvees and jeeps.

So mark this down on your calendar, but don’t worry or do anything about it.   Just make sure you have some organic free-range chicken for lunch today.

I’m just hoping the next intelligent species to inhabit the planet in 10 million years is smarter than this one.

So we’re living with some new restrictions…

And I’ve used the Temprid label in the previous rant as the example.  Not to pick on Bayer.

So, only on the structure, make certain you don’t treat the ground, or allow any on the deck or patio.

When you spray the eave 40 feet up no drips, drops or dribbles allowed!

And indoors?

I can’t tell you how to define indoor perimeter vs baseboard vs C&C.   I’m confused myself. But you’ll have to be extra careful and get that interpretation.

Now comes the kicker.  A reliable source…I feel like Dan Rather or 60 Minutes…from the “agency” stated the new testing they are going to be doing this year:  samples of the spray tank to make certain your rate is accurate, and swabbing treated areas, and untreated to, see if you are in the labeled area of use.

Swabbing:  Actually going into places that have been treated and taking swabs of the floor, baseboards, walls, beds etc. to make certain there is no pesticide where it shouldn’t be.

So make certain there hasn’t been any other pesticides used by the home owner or any other PMP.   Probably for 2 – 3 years?

Soil sampling:  If the pesticide label does not allow for perimeter treatment in a “band” extending out from the building, then if found in the soil it’s off label.

So make certain they haven’t added any mulch or soil or peat moss to their flower beds before you treat.  It may be previously contaminated.

Or, simple enough, spread a drop clothe over the yard and decks and shrubs when you spray. If you’re spreading a drop clothe, might as well paint it on!

This new testing or checking up on you is all well and good…but a.) how do they implement and b.) is it realistic?

How targeted can we get, with current application equipment, time constraint, and some sense of realism?

I don’t think as targeted as they would like.

I guess we’ll find out when the first fine is levied…

Oh and the PMRA will now be publishing any fines, citations, hand slaps and generally finger pointing “no-no’s” on their website for the whole world to read.

But the only ones looking it up will be the “greens”

And your competitors.