By Bob Williams | The Daily Journal

Published Tuesday, October 16, 2007

There are millions of insect species on earth, many of which are already resistant to pesticides. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint."

"After poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide poisons we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species." Author Stephen L. Tvedten said.

"Every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide poisons to try to ‘keep up. Even with all of this expensive pollution — we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year."

According to Tvedten, we are losing the war against these pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide poisons and fertilizers.

"There has been a severe ‘knowledge drought,’" he said.

Tvedten describes this drought as a worldwide decline in agricultural research and development, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide poisons and fertilizers.

"Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the right way," Tvedten said. "The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage."

For more information, see Tvedten’s latest work, the IPM encyclopedia entitled: The Best Control II, containing over 2,800 safe and effective alternatives to pesticide poisons at http://www.stephentvedten.com