WeMove
Europe is een petitie gestart die gericht is tegen het genetisch
manipuleren van muggen, waarmee muggen dusdanig genetisch worden aangepast dat ze onvruchtbaar worden…… WeMove Europe eist een moratorium totdat de (onafhankelijke) wetenschap ten volle begrijpt wat de risico’s van deze genetische manipulatie betekenen voor andere insecten.
Dit moratorium daar deze manier van het bestrijden van
ziekten als malaria en knokkelkoorts, de kans vergroot op het
overslaan van steriliteit op andere soorten insecten, die bijvoorbeeld belangrijk zijn voor het
bestuiven van gewassen….. Vergeet niet dat zelfs Einstein zich
hiermee bemoeide met te zeggen dat wanneer de bestuivers
uitsterven het gedaan zal zijn met de mensheid…..
Een malariamug
Niet alleen de mens zal de dupe zijn van het verdwijnen van insecten, maar ook veel vogelsoorten zullen dit niet overleven…….
Met het Coronavirus hebben we gezien hoe snel een organisme zich kan
verspreiden, het is dan ook van het allergrootste belang dat men onmiddellijk stopt op
deze letterlijk doodlopende weg!! Daarnaast moet je niet vergeten dat een groot aantal bestuivers al enorm is teruggelopen in aantal, neem de bijensterfte, of alleen al het feit dat sinds de 70er jaren wereldwijd twee derde van het aantal insecten is uitgestorven o.a. door het gebruik van Roundup, waarin het kankerverwekkende glyfosaat is verwerkt……
Dat het Penrtagon (middels DARPA) meewerkt aan deze manipulatie doet het ergste vermoeden: niet ondenkbaar dat men daar een andere manier zoekt om een VS onwelgevalllig land op de knieën te dwingen door bestuivers steriel te maken en zo oogsten te saboteren. Als het om het Pentagon of de geheime diensten van de VS gaat, hoef je nergens meer van op te kijken……
Opvallend
weer dat naast het Pentagon ook de Bill and Linda Gates Foundation zich
bezig houdt met deze genetische manipulatie….. (‘leuke combi ook’: het Pentagon en de B&M Gates foundation….)
Lees en
teken de petitie ajb, of dat nu wel of niet uit eigenbelang is, maar vooral om een
leefbare wereld na te laten voor de generaties na ons!!
Technology
to kill
David
– WeMove Europe <info@wemove.eu>
A
“gene drive” is a newly developed genetic technique of
engineering insects, animals and plants. By spreading, they can
replace their natural counterparts until they’re all eradicated. We
call for a moratorium until we understand all its risks.
With the coronavirus,
we’ve learned how fast a new organism can spread. Imagine
genetically engineered mosquitoes designed to inherit their genes at
a very fast pace, jeopardise the food chain, and wipe out their
natural siblings by making them infertile. [1]
According to
scientists, there is a risk the so-called “gene drive”
could even spread from mosquitoes to butterflies, killing
pollinators en masse, risking crops, plants and entire
ecosystems. [2]
Nobody pushing
this new technology has a solution that would successfully mitigate
these risks, but even so, plans are proceeding to make gene drives a
reality. Most
of the funding to make this happen is being provided by the US
military and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. [3]
With your help, we
can start the process to put a moratorium on it. Next
week, experts and government officials will come together to discuss
this new and risky technology.
Our partners have secured two seats at this private online meeting
and will represent our voices.
If thousands of us
sign the petition calling for a moratorium, what our partners say
will count much more. Add your name to ensure we don’t release
any genetically engineered organism without properly assessing its
severe risks.
The billionaire
Bill Gates is excited about the potential of this new technology.
[4] He hopes to get rid of mosquitos that pass on diseases, but until
now no scientist has been able to assess the risk. [5] We don’t want
to solve one problem only to create another bigger one. [6]
Imagine we
eradicate one species of mosquitoes, but what happens to frogs,
birds and fish feeding on mosquitoes and their eggs? How will the
behaviour of other animals change when mosquitoes disappear? Deer may
not hide in the mountains to protect themselves against their bites,
instead staying in valleys and feeding differently.
The biggest
imaginable risk is the collapse of whole ecosystems happening with
the release of even a handful of gene drive mosquitoes. With what
we know about gene drives now, their effects cannot be predicted,
stopped, or reversed. We want to support the great system that is
nature and understand it before we mess with it. A moratorium will
give us the time to work out what we need to do next to protect
nature and life.
The upcoming
meeting of experts is to inform EU and global decision makers about
the risks.
This is the moment we need to be heard. Unfortunately,
we don’t know yet who will participate and we cannot address them
directly, but only two of us will join the meeting – and we need them
to be powerful.
Our signatures show
people power from all over Europe. We have shown time and time again
how, starting with a simple petition, we can achieve big wins: just
a few weeks ago we shared how together we stopped barley, brewing,
and ultimately all beer production from being patented. It started
with a simple petition.
If we act now,
we can have a moratorium before it’s too late.
David, Jörg
(Lübeck), and the entire WeMove Europe team
PS: Before we
release a new technology, we
need
to make sure we don’t risk destroying entire ecosystems by making
the world an experimental laboratory.
Please sign and
share widely to put a moratorium on gene drives.
References:
[1]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191219142646.htm
[2]
There is evidence from insects that a bacterium called Wolbachia can
transfer genes between different insect species. So, it is
theoretically possible that Wolbachia genetic transfer could take
place between mosquitoes and pollinating insects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882834/
[3] “Total
funding for gene drive development is currently estimated to exceed a
quarter of a billion US dollars. The largest single government funder
of gene drive research is the U.S. military (DARPA).”
https://www.etcgroup.org/content/gene-drive-files
[4]
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/bill-gates-thinks-gene-editing-artificial-intelligence-save-world/
[5]
The first disease the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to
tackle is malaria.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/25/gm-mosquitoes-released-burkina-faso-malaria-gene-drive
Malaria was once widespread in Europe as well and was eradicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
[6]
https://www.stop-genedrives.eu/en/gene-drives/
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