Are GE eucalyptus trees killing the ecosystems of Tasmania?

Talk about Paradise lost - insanity rules supreme! Thank you for posting this story - heartbreaking!

its allmost like these companys are trying to tkill us...

-"USDA's plan to allow the planting of 260,000 of these eucalyptus trees in the Southern US."

It boggles my mind how these trees would be allowed to be planted in this country or anywhere without knowing their effects on the ecosystems that support life. Are we truly so blinded by greed that we have forgotten why we are here? And I do not believe it may be only the trees here, but the spraying of pesticides on top of it in combination with it. If you watch the very beginning of Part 1, you cannot help but be in awe of the beauty of this place. A place now toxic by our hand. And yes, Jubal, we will reap the whirlwind for our lack of caring for this planet thinking we must serve our own interests first, because the day will come when we realize that what we have done was not in our best interests at all.

GE everything is bad
Nature is the only one that knows how to do things proper

This is so terrible. When is nature going to exact her revenge against the brutality being cast upon her?

We have to stop thinking of the earth as a soul-less machine . This is horrific .

Holy shit . We are killing ourselves . GE = slow suicide . Not just for humans . We have insulted the earth .

shut-up!..we as humans are..there's no science needed when the God given common sense rules in...(ps the-- shut up --was the 'scientific revolution)

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/somethingwatertwo/default.htm

Part 2 of this important story.

These good people are heroes to me. But as usual, we see government stonewalling and the evisceration of their efforts. Greed is a powerful destroyer.

Excerpt from the transcript:

'IAN COATSWORTH, OYSTER FARMER: We first reported major problems in about 2000, and now it’s what, ten years down the track and we’ve still got nowhere. That in itself is just devastating. When everything was right, it’s just a wonderful industry. But you can’t defeat the undefeatable. There’s other losses apart from the oysters. There’s the... it’s, you know, the anguish, depression; it’s dreadful.

DR CHRIS HICKEY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH,NZ: We wouldn't see this necessarily in the laboratory or even expect to sort of look for this sort of effect. You're only going to see it once you get things on a very large scale monoculture. It's a classic case of potential unintended circumstances, unintended effects from something that’s on a large scale like plantation forestry. We’re quite comfortable that we know that the foam is very toxic, but we don’t know what quantities are produced and the frequency that it’s occurred and how often things are exposed. So that is a major unknown that needs some more work.

DR FIONA YOUNG, REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGIST, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY: When I first became involved in this research, I was a bit doubtful about it. So I went through all the data, all the experiments and all the results that Marcus and Alison had put together. I went through it with a fine toothcomb. It is classical toxicology. It’s rigorous; It’s right down the line. I couldn’t find a nicer piece of work. And then as I got drawn into the story, I became fascinated by the mystery. I think there are a number of different things going on here and we need to work out what’s going on in this river. We used two different cell lines... two different cancer cell lines to test the toxicity of the foam that Chris Hickey worked on and to some other water samples that I collected from the George River. We actually took breast cancer cells and cells from a placental tumor. We deliberately choose these cancer cells for culture systems because they’re hardy and robust. They both died; both cancer cell lines died. It doesn’t mean that actually if somebody drinks the water that it will poison them. It doesn’t mean that, because it could be that the digestive processes that go on in the stomach might break down the toxin, might render the toxin harmless; we just don’t know. But what was surprising was the speed with which the cells died after exposure to these water samples. So we’ve investigated the effects of the toxins on cell death and cell viability, and that’s one thing. But in fact you can get more subtle effects. So for example, the toxin might affect the hormone system in the body. And the hormone system might be affected... is more likely to be affected before the cells actually die. Cell death’s at the end of the line; you get other damage occurring before cell death. So these are preliminary data because we’ve only done two separate samples in a number of ways in the lab, with a number of different tests. But those two sets of data, as well as all the data that’s come from the... another research group at Uni New South Wales, as well as all the other invertebrate data that others have done, are enough to say we’ve got to look at this in far more detail.

DR CHRIS HICKEY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH,NZ: Since our original experiments we designed a second series of experiments whereby we would chemically analyse both leaf material from eucalyptus nitens and foam material, and then follow that up with bioassays with both our fresh water cladocerans and our blue mussels. So this is some sort of forensic toxicology work that we’re doing. What we’ve been able to do is come very close to showing that there’s a common chemical fraction in both the eucalyptus nitens leaves and in the toxicity in the foams. So from that we really feel we’re very close to being able to confirm that the eucalyptus nitens is the primary source of toxicity in the foams. We just haven’t been able to actually get down to the final fingerprinting and molecular weight determinations which will give us our final linkage to the eucalyptus nitens.'

http://www.water-sos.org/plantation-gmo-effect.html

This is real and it is a real threat to our global biodiversity and health.

Does that have to be SCREAMED here in order to get the attention it deserves? Or would some sex themed banal title on the post be the ticket to draw people in?