Hopefully you caught Foster Gamble of CASS on KGO Radio today. I would love it if KGO would start publishing Permalinks to their radio broadcasts, because otherwise they seem to be archived for no more than a week, unless I am missing something. Because I apparently can’t create a permanent link (one that won’t break eventually) to the broadcast, I want to recap some really important data presented by Foster Gamble.

CASS is intending to release a report soon, documenting the predicted damage that will occur to 3 of California’s most important economic factors: tourism, real estate, and organic farming. Using a 1-10% ratio of expected damage, Gamble gave these numbers.

Tourism
200 Million – 2 Billion in losses due to LBAM spray.

Real Estate
25.7 Billion – 257 Billion in losses due to LBAM spray.

Organic Farming
23 Million – 230 Million in losses, annually, in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties alone.

I wasn’t clear whether the first 2 figures were projected over a span of a year, five, years, ten years, etc., but I am sure CASS’s report will make this all concrete. Basically, at the least we are looking at hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and at the worst, we are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.

California has historically been the #1 tourist destination in the United States.

Real Estate accounts for the majority of private citizen wealth in California. In other words, most Californians invest the bulk of their money in their homes.

Organic Farming is the only food option available to Californians who do not want to eat toxic contaminated food.

LBAM aerial spraying will either drastically harm or decimate all three of these vital industries.

Foster Gamble’s Suggested Path For Getting Us Out Of This Ludicrous Situation

I thought this was so clear, so simple, so brilliant, it needed to be paraphrased in print.

Step 1: Honor American’s Constitutional rights to safety and privacy so that no one gets sprayed without their consent.

Step 2: Declassify the moth based on modern science such as the findings of the New Zealand study which prove this moth is kept in check by natural predators.

Step 3: Lift the quarantines so that farmers do not suffer financial losses.

Step 4: Monitor the moth. If things get out of balance, use manual, non-toxic practices such as weeding and attracting birds and bats to the land so that the environment becomes re-balanced.

Step 5: Even the individuals who were hoping to benefit monetarily or professionally from the spraying win in this scenario of the halting the spray because they will be protected from costly and damaging lawsuits.

Isn’t that beautiful? So simple. So right. Let’s make it happen!