After years of bullshit legislation on air and water quality which only had the effect of slowing down real estate and infrastructure projects finally the EU gets something right on the enviroment. Now every substance used on plants will have to be tested by the new agency ECHA which has been founded earlier this month to replace all the national agencies. The move will result in a restriction of the use of several popular pesticedes.

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDoc...ult/101422.pdf (page 21)

Less poison in our food! We should all be thankfull.

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If, in fact, that is the result.

Making something larger and more cumbersome doesn't always make it better.

Matt

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it took decades to get DDT back into the mainsteam, good luck...

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So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

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Isn't DDT poisonous?

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Terrornoia: how the propa-ugandists used the omni-territorialization of terror for the fundamen-talismanization of criminal law in a multi-cultus-ritualistic society

NO, not in the amounts its used and rachel carson has about oh conservatively the blood of about 10 million people on her hands...goggle "silent spring" and read up on her bullshit "cause”....

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


Mortgage Backed Security survivor

to mosquitoes

the malaria that they carry is REALLY poisonous, deadly in the 3rd world.

Well, that can be...
But it can also be more efficent than 27 national agencies working at the same time...

My guess is, after a period of chaos, it will do good work

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I could not say that the efforts on water quality were fruitless. Especially with the admission of the new member states huge investments were made due to that.

There are also ecological programs for rivers which affected my home region quite clearly. Rivers have been renatured, the effect of large hydro power plants has been reduced by construction fish ladders etc as part of EU programs. These steps are expected to have a significant impact on the fish populations that came under tremendous stress over the last decades.

In regards to the pesticide testing by one central agency, I think its a good step.

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