To be more accurate, not really a "land grab", but a way to remove a lot of farmland from production (since they will say it is "contaminated", or something).
It won't work. Why not? The US has so much farmland we have to pay farmers NOT to produce anything, or the cost of the goods would be so low (so much higher output than demand) that it would put the farmers out of business.
If some farmland is damaged, other farmland paid not to produce anything would be brought back into production. This video also says that any contamination would be short-term worst case. Most of the chemicals break down quickly into less harmful components.
That's not what Mike Adams has suggested, that some of the chemicals have a half-life of 50-100 years to decompose naturally. Meaning 500+ years for the area to be considered "clean" again.
And we don't even know what the combustion products are. We were only told the precursors. And all of that went into a giant blast pit, mixed together, and you know the rest. So I'd still be cautious consuming anything from around there.
Well then you will have to compare Mike Adams knowledge, background and expertise vs. Dr. Merritt's knowledge, background and expertise. Which one is more credible?
Regardless, I think Dr. Merritt's advice not to fall for the same scare tactics as C19 is a good idea.
I will take Adams on this one. He has the experience and knowledge for this topic. Even though he is a bit of a fear monger, he is a real geek when it comes to industrial lab sciences and chemistry. This derailment has already prompted Adams to adapt the mass spec equipment he already has in order to test for dioxins in the products he sells. I think he knows what he is talking about.
To be more accurate, not really a "land grab", but a way to remove a lot of farmland from production (since they will say it is "contaminated", or something).
It won't work. Why not? The US has so much farmland we have to pay farmers NOT to produce anything, or the cost of the goods would be so low (so much higher output than demand) that it would put the farmers out of business.
If some farmland is damaged, other farmland paid not to produce anything would be brought back into production. This video also says that any contamination would be short-term worst case. Most of the chemicals break down quickly into less harmful components.
That's not what Mike Adams has suggested, that some of the chemicals have a half-life of 50-100 years to decompose naturally. Meaning 500+ years for the area to be considered "clean" again.
And we don't even know what the combustion products are. We were only told the precursors. And all of that went into a giant blast pit, mixed together, and you know the rest. So I'd still be cautious consuming anything from around there.
Well then you will have to compare Mike Adams knowledge, background and expertise vs. Dr. Merritt's knowledge, background and expertise. Which one is more credible?
Regardless, I think Dr. Merritt's advice not to fall for the same scare tactics as C19 is a good idea.
I think Adams is more credible on matters of chemistry and the environment.
I also have some experience with hazardous materials and I know that those particular chemicals are ones that you don't want to fuck with.
Nope. You really need to read up more on Mike Adams background - or in this case, lack of relevant background.
I will take Adams on this one. He has the experience and knowledge for this topic. Even though he is a bit of a fear monger, he is a real geek when it comes to industrial lab sciences and chemistry. This derailment has already prompted Adams to adapt the mass spec equipment he already has in order to test for dioxins in the products he sells. I think he knows what he is talking about.
Is he though? I thought he said his lab isn't certified to test for them etc.