Yea!! What a big-picture, longer-term win (although it'll only take full effect in a year). Congratulations on the dogged effort of you, Rob, and your colleagues, in pursuing this for so many years. While many of us are quick to rant at the moment and then move on, only those with stamina persevere 'til satisfactory resolution. Thanks for being one of those people who make a difference, Rob.
Thank you Glenn. That means a great deal to me to hear this from you. The next trick - as it so often happens - is to make sure THIS decision does not get reversed. The one-year buffer gives too much opportunity to go right back to it. And, of course, there will be other pesticides that will take dicamba's place. And.... dicamba will still be used, just not in this fashion. Still, we take our wins when we get them. This one is not a small win, it's a big win. Here's hoping for some bigger wins in the future.
As the rapid evolution of pesticide resistant 'weeds', insects, fungi, and ??? continues, big changes are going to be forced on industrial agriculture. There are only so many ways to stick atoms together into a molecule without disastrous results. Much like with climate change - we can find a way to make a change in a more reasonable way, or we can just keep making the same greedy mistakes and go down hard, chaotic, and ugly. My own feeling is that we (humankind) are very rapidly running out of time to have any agency in the outcome. THAT won't be pretty.
Paul, it certainly can feel overwhelming and even hopeless at times. But, let's do our best to make the changes we can and hold on to the hope that enough of us will make the necessary difference. I agree, the stakes are high and the challenge will be difficult.
Yea!! What a big-picture, longer-term win (although it'll only take full effect in a year). Congratulations on the dogged effort of you, Rob, and your colleagues, in pursuing this for so many years. While many of us are quick to rant at the moment and then move on, only those with stamina persevere 'til satisfactory resolution. Thanks for being one of those people who make a difference, Rob.
Thank you Glenn. That means a great deal to me to hear this from you. The next trick - as it so often happens - is to make sure THIS decision does not get reversed. The one-year buffer gives too much opportunity to go right back to it. And, of course, there will be other pesticides that will take dicamba's place. And.... dicamba will still be used, just not in this fashion. Still, we take our wins when we get them. This one is not a small win, it's a big win. Here's hoping for some bigger wins in the future.
Rob
As the rapid evolution of pesticide resistant 'weeds', insects, fungi, and ??? continues, big changes are going to be forced on industrial agriculture. There are only so many ways to stick atoms together into a molecule without disastrous results. Much like with climate change - we can find a way to make a change in a more reasonable way, or we can just keep making the same greedy mistakes and go down hard, chaotic, and ugly. My own feeling is that we (humankind) are very rapidly running out of time to have any agency in the outcome. THAT won't be pretty.
Paul, it certainly can feel overwhelming and even hopeless at times. But, let's do our best to make the changes we can and hold on to the hope that enough of us will make the necessary difference. I agree, the stakes are high and the challenge will be difficult.
Rob