A certain pesticide that’s been found to harm bees is no longer approved for use in the United States, after a federal appeals court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s authorization of it Thursday.

Let this be a beginning.

Chemical policy is non-existent. The technological sector, manufacturing, and the energy systems NEED to be treated as closed systems, because that is ultimately what they are.

The word "pollution" is the manner in which humans have condensed their understanding of modern chemistry in industrial processes and relegated it to a tolerated minor inconvenience, offset by the marvels of modern existence.

However, now we see that man has grown so careless and literally poisonous in his habits, that the giant terrarium, our little habitat called the Earth, is showing multiple SEVERE strains and damages that will forever change the fate of the planet and its biodiversity.

In an infinite Universe of far flung planets harboring (presumably) tiny fleeting bubbles of Life, what could be a more precious commodity than the viability of the container and the biodiversity generated within? Yet humans continue to act as if they haven't reached beyond the confines of the bubble, to gaze back upon this fragile little world, shining in a vast ocean of spiraling nothingness.

We need a comprehensive world-wide industrial chemical usage paradigm shift. Close ALL THE LOOPS. In other words, design industrial practices to contain, refine, mitigate, or otherwise utilize EVERYTHING that is currently considered acceptable waste. Factories will no longer release, dump, improperly or unwisely store, or generate any chemistry besides, H2O and heat. Waste products will be collected and refined back into base materials, either onsite or locally. Manufacturing must control ALL of the dangerous chemicals currently designated as pollution, including CO2.

And we start accounting for all the pesticides, herbicides, and other industrial poisons that we pump into our environment on the daily. Reduce, redesign, and lessen chemical impact is the only way to clean up our filthy planet.

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