CASS Predicts 260 BILLION in Damages to Real Estate, Tourism and Organics Because of LBAM Spray
Saturday 19 Apr 2008 | LBAM Spray Bay Area
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!
Saturday 19 Apr 2008 | admin | LBAM Spray Bay Area |
this elegantly simple and effective plan should be repeated frequently and presented constantly.
Update from Vegan Reader:
A wonderful video interview with Foster Gamble has just been published on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mdshhuh6jEo
Yet another very well-spoken resident is clearly working to defend us all. Heartfelt thanks to Foster, CAS and EON!
very good video! i’m sending it around.
i am thinking that THE WHITE LIST would be good to be aware of, and typing in http://www.geocities.com/nowhitelist/ should result in some useful information. there could be many things they would want to spray if the white list is a guide.
Hi Solstice,
Wow, I had not heard of the White List before. How scary is that? I really appreciate you sharing that link.
This is such a dangerous, bad ideology. I just want to ask people, “who put you in charge of planet Earth?”
Why are human beings such control freaks? Interacting with one’s environment is natural…but these brothers who want to be in charge of every leaf, bug, molecule, creature…what do they think they are doing? It’s so presumptuous.
Thanks for the link. I’m very glad to have you here, Solstice.
Mim
thanks, Mim, i hope everyone will understand that the ENTIRE USA would get sprayed if the plan for california geos ahead, and contacting representatives and senators NOW is best, before there is a nasty surprise.
i don’t like to imagine my own fear if i heard the spray planes overhead from 8p to 5a every month for ten years. how could i garden outdoors, or let my dogs outside?
i do not want respiratory disease, skin lesions and cancer, so i pray we can get these spray people and gvt people to understand the simple and effective organic ways to deal with this.
I, too, am filled with fear, Solstice. I am striving daily not to let that fear immobilize me. You are very right - now is the time to fight before spraying pesticides on human beings becomes a new national norm. It is totally unacceptable to all right-thinking peoples and should be treated as a criminal act.
Keep working at this.
Mim
the way i avoid being terrified is taking action and speaking out about things that violate my rights, especially health and food and farming issues, so this helps me, really, as you are certainly aware.
i do not have a farm yet, but i want to grow my own food, and want my animals and myself to be healthy. i want you to have peace and joy at your place as you intended and deserve. i want people to not have to leave their beloved homes to flee this silly exercise in control.
i just called my congressman again to remind him of this issue, and told the leader of gmwatch.org about it as well. their site was severely hacked, not for the first tme, but they will be back, so look for it. i also reminded organicconsumers.com . peace.
Thank you so much for your good wishes, Solstice. I wish the same for you. Peace and happiness.
Sounds like you made some good calls today!
Mim
i heard your good wishes before i read them, so you are a powerful thinker.
it was a good day, i think. i made several contacts that i hope will be useful.
i also hope S got lots of calls.
everything i do now makes me wonder how i would do it if spraying were done over my home, so i hope the spray people think of that as well.
if you don’t already, maybe you will want to raise bees when the spraying is stopped. this interests me, but i would have a lot to learn first. the place i buy honey from has an informational site with a nice video.
http://www.honeygardens.com
it would be nice to have some bees.