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Pollution kills more than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined (16% of all the deaths in the world). Air, water, soil, and chemical pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and death, responsible for 9 million premature deaths per year according to conservative estimates. Everyday we are working to change that.

To fill major gaps, the Great Southern Conglomerate P/L was established to track, control and prevent pollution-related diseases and illnesses. We're focused on the impact of pollution upon marine ecosystems, including children’s and adolescent health, mortality, and the loss of “human capital” caused by toxic pollutants that impair organ / brain function.

Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times, published an article nearly fourteen years ago on May 5, 2010, which has largely fallen on deaf ears:

"The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.” […] “The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching consequences for our health."

“The report blames weak laws, lax enforcement and fragmented authority, as well as the existing regulatory presumption that chemicals are safe unless strong evidence emerges to the contrary.” […] “ ‘Only a few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals in use in the United States have been tested for safety,’ the report says. It adds: ‘Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.’ ” […] “Industry may howl.” […] “In the real world, regulatory decisions usually must be made with ambiguous and conflicting data. The panel’s point is that we should be prudent in such situations, rather than recklessly approving chemicals of uncertain effect.” […]

Once again, Kristof reported some of the President’s Cancer Panel's grim findings in another article published nearly six years later on February 13, 2016:

“Scientists have identified more than 200 industrial chemicals — from pesticides, flame retardants, jet fuel — as well as neurotoxins like lead in the blood or breast milk of Americans, indeed, in people all over our planet (Kristof, 2016). These have been linked to cancer, genital deformities, lower sperm count, obesity and diminished I.Q. Medical organizations from the President’s Cancer Panel to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics have demanded tougher regulations or warned people to avoid them, and the cancer panel has warned that ‘to a disturbing extent, babies are born 'pre-polluted.' ’ ” […] “So we have a remarkable state of affairs:” […]

In the Winter of 2021, it was reported that "84,000 chemicals in circulation today, only 1% of them have been tested for safety."

Our species (Homo sapiens) is the only species on this planet that is actively seeking to eradicate itself and its habitat. All of the earth’s life support systems—soil, water, and air—are in decline as a direct result of our current economic activity, which is geared to extract as much from the sacred earth as possible without any regard for the consequences that ensue.

Our consumption-driven economic model, which we have designed and are now enslaved by, causes perpetual deficiencies—resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and contamination by toxic substances, all of which wreak perpetual havoc on the entire ecosystem and its surrounding environment. The billionaire set’s relentless quest for profits at the expense of everyone’s social well-being is fueling worldwide competition for resources and causing an eco-holocaust.

Sperm counts and infertility

Another vital link that cannot be ignored is the decline in male sperm counts in Western countries. Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and a leading scholar of reproductive health, projects that sperm counts of the median man are set to hit zero by 2045. With the introduction of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), male sperm counts have dropped 50% to 60%—an average of 1% to 2% per year—between 1973 and 2011. Granted, endocrine-disruptor microplastics in our drinking water pose countless problems, but that problem pales in comparison with the damaging effects of industrial agriculture.

Worldwide warnings from other scientists, doctors, and environmentalists abound. For instance, Dr. Vandana Shiva, an environmental and food sovereignty activist and ecofeminist based in Delhi, India, has been continually cautioning, in books and articles she pens and in speeches and interviews she gives around the world, that industrial agriculture has ruined soil and plant life by inhibiting their ability to maintain microorganisms and minerals, such as zinc, iron, and magnesium, which are vital for immune response in animals and humans. In her 2012 opinion piece titled ‘Myths About Industrial Agriculture,’ Dr. Shiva cited a 1995 study that found industrial agriculture (which began in 1965) to be responsible for 75% of the earth’s biodiversity erosion, 75% of its water destruction, and 40% of its greenhouse gases, while producing only 30% of humans’ food supply.

In short, the aforementioned reduction in male sperm counts, combined with soil degradation around the globe, are the two key factors that are driving humanity toward extinction.

Chemical manufacturers

The makers of synthetic chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers are Earth’s biggest polluters.

“Millions of agricultural workers are also in harm’s way since petrochemicals are used to develop pesticides, which are toxic to humans and contaminate soil, water, and air.” (EARTHJUSTICE, 2023)}

• One in four people worldwide now suffer from allergies;
  
• One in three in North America are obese;
  
• One in two women and one in three men in the US will develop cancer in their lifetime.
  
• In addition, the developmental disability termed autism spectrum disorder has risen from one in 5,000 children in 1975 to one in thirty-six in 2016.
  
• If the current trend continues, we can expect to see one in three children plagued by autism by 2035.
  
• Meanwhile, in the same time period, we have seen a dramatic rise in other immune system disorders, such as Crohn’s, celiac disease, Parkinson’s (in men), Alzheimer’s (in women), dementia, and type 1 diabetes.
  

Meanwhile, the longest river in the United States, the mighty Mississippi, and its hundreds of tributaries collect more than 80% of the Roundup sprayed on crops in the entire USA. The Mississippi River is also the recipient of thousands of other chemical pollutants that are dumped into it by petrochemical companies. It’s no surprise that the people residing along the last 140 km stretch of the river, which runs through Louisiana—specifically in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans area—have some of the highest rates of cancer in the entire world.

Excess consumption

Humans have already exceeded the number of planet Earths needed to provide resources and absorb our waste waste (approaching two planets) – if every human lived like the average Australian consumer, we would require approximately 5.4 planets to support the human population.

Virtually everything humanity needs and uses – food, fuel, clothing, medicine, mechanical power, and much of housing, shelter, material goods, energy and transportation – is obtained directly or indirectly via the services or products of nature. The increase in demand for any good is met mostly through additional resource extraction, biodiversity loss, land clearance, illegal and poorly regulated discharges of industrial chemicals into rivers, and higher conversion of land per capita to logging, agriculture and farming. Habitat loss is generally considered to be the single largest threat to biodiversity.

Sustainable development

Meanwhile, international policies for ‘sustainable development’ incorrectly endorse globalisation and environmentally destructive forms of GDP growth (Radjou, 2018). A regenerative world will not come about without very substantial funding. Yet vital funds are still going in the opposite direction. As things stand, humanity is spending vast sums, not on regenerating life on Earth, but on tools of annihilation, with global military budgets now at over US$2 trillion per year (SIPRI, 2023).

Despite, countless studies encompassing the life / physical sciences identifying the greatest threat to our planet’s ecosystems and species - unstudied, understudied and unregulated EMFs, EM radiation, and chemical contaminants present in our food, water supplies and marine ecosystems - far too many people continue to remain ignorant and silent about the fact that heavy metals, environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs), plasticizers, solvents, micro(nano) plastics/fibres, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), aromatic compounds, organic and inorganic contaminants, and hazardous chemical compounds - for instance, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, petroleum waste, plastic waste and their related chemicals - are the leading causes of death, disease, illness, disappearing species, plummeting human sperm counts, and irregular sex ratios (gender biologically).

Not only are chemical contaminants toxic to our nervous system, enhance ecotoxicological effects and cause headaches, but can cause pulmonary edema (when inhaled), neurological disorders, severe brain damage (severe neurotoxicity), reproductive system damage, respiratory tract problems, inflammation to the skin, eyes and lungs, liver and reproductive toxicity, neuronal death, cytotoxicity, oxidative stress, genotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, and exhibit toxic, endocrine, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects in living organisms, and can ultimately lead to death.

Climate change

Too many people instead talk about their worries about the dire consequences of climate change while, in reality, they form a group of people who are unwilling to drop the consumption of animal products at the planet’s expense and who would rather remain silent about the decisive main factors contributing to climate change, such as chemical pollution. They know very well that climate change will ultimately affect the poorest developing countries and, after that, future generations, rather than themselves.

Ultimately, our planet will be destroyed because the majority of people place a higher value on an egoistic personal taste for animal products than they do on the integrity of the Earth and the welfare of current and future generations. The question remains whether people want to participate in this eco holocaust or not.

scepticism about human intelligence?

In light of these facts, it is becoming increasingly clear that scepticism about human intelligence is well founded. It’s clear that the situation we find ourselves in is dire and perverse. In consuming animal products, humans not only damage their own health, cause adults and children to starve, they also support the cruel exploitation and physical abuse of innocent animals (both in laboratories and on farms), and do enormous damage to the environment, endangering their own survival. Humans are not only sawing off the branch they are sitting on but also the branch that their children and grandchildren are sitting on.

Fresh water

Consider what we are doing to our fresh water. A full 80% of our planet’s surface is composed of water, of which 97% is salt water. The remaining 3% of our available supplies of drinking water have been treated so recklessly that they are highly polluted and rapidly depleting. Of that 3% fresh water, at least 29% is siphoned off by the water-intensive meat and dairy industries. The United Nations estimates that over the next decade two billion people will suffer extreme water scarcity and that by the end of this century half of the world’s population will experience some kind of water scarcity.

Mining and oil industries

The mining and oil industries are not best friends of the environment either. In the US, mining companies have removed over 500 mountains in the Appalachians, causing immense ground pollution and surface water pollution. In other parts of the country, drilling for shale oil and gas, called hydraulic fracturing but better known as fracking, pumps carcinogens and toxins into the air, water, and soil, further exacerbating chemical pollution.

Meat and dairy industries

The aforementioned meat and dairy industries do more harm than just hogging water. Animal agriculture—encompassing huge factory farms and small family farms—is also the leading cause of greenhouse gases, deforestation, species extinction, and ocean ‘dead zones.’ The industrial intensive farming of animals and their feed crops is largely to blame for the highest rate of species mass extinction in 65 million years. Moreover, no other industry on the planet needs as much acreage as animal agriculture: It hoards 45% of all ice-free land on the planet. According to the World Animal Foundation, 70% of the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed for the sole purpose of growing GMO soybean or corn crops that feed livestock in South America and Europe. Between 1970 and 2019, a total of 718,927 square kilometers of the Brazilian portion of the Amazon rainforest was deforested.

Dr Don Huber, a Plant Pathologist from Purdue University, Indiana, reported that the world’s biggest selling herbicide is an antibiotic, an organic phosphonate, a growth regulator, a toxicant, a virulence enhancer and is persistent in the soil. It chelates (captures) and washes out the following minerals: boron, calcium, cobalt, copper, iron, potassium, magnesium, manganese, nickel and zinc, which has been even more problematic since regulators have regularly increased the maximum residue levels of the herbicide in foods.

A few more facts to consider:

• Fully half of the world’s grain supply is destined for food animals at the same time that one billion people face starvation.
  
• In the US, 54% of all fresh water is diverted by animal agriculture at a time when 99.8% of the geographic area of California is in a critical drought.
  
• Worldwide, the animal agriculture industry, which kills at least 72 billion land animals every year (200 million every day), contributes 51% of all ‘greenhouse gas emissions’, far exceeding the 13% contributed by all modes of transportation combined.
  

SIlence of environmental nonprofits

The most surprising ‘fact’ about the devastation wrought by animal agriculture, though, is that almost all of the purported environmental nonprofits are silent on this issue and chemical pollution.

WHAT ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN OUTDOORS?

Like many other nations, Australia is experiencing a major environmental crisis:

• In 2021, Australia was the only developed nation on the world's list of deforestation hotspots.
• In 2018, WWF rated Australia a zero due to the absence of biodiversity measures in our Paris climate change commitments.
  
• More mammal species have become extinct in Australia than anywhere else on Earth.
  
• Australia has lost approximately 75% of its rainforests.
  
• Environmental management is not well coordinated.
  
• Extreme events such as floods, droughts, wildfires, storms, and heat waves have affected every part of Australia.
  

Commercial fishing industry

The environmental calamity is even direr in the world’s oceans. The commercial fishing industry is destroying ocean life, including ocean floors, at a pace never seen in recorded history. No other industry kills more animals than this trade. A report by Matthew Zampa for Sentient Media observes that between 37 billion and 120 billion fish are killed in manmade commercial fish farms each year and at least another trillion aquatic animals living in natural water bodies are killed for food each year. Research presented on the Oceana website contends that this staggering total does not include the 100 million sharks and 650,000 whales, dolphins, and seals that are killed every year as bycatch. (Bycatch is the total number of sea animals who fishermen unintentionally catch in their nets and kill, either by discarding at sea or bringing back to port.)

As a result of all this extraction and extermination, global populations of numerous species of aquatic life are plummeting to near-extinction levels. A scientific study presented in The New York Times predicts that if commercial fishing around the world continues at its present pace, by 2048 the oceans will be practically empty.

Oceans as dumping grounds

Equally worrisome, our oceans have become earth’s largest illegal dumping ground for manufacturing and mining enterprises around the world, yet approximately 90% of research has focused on the drivers and impacts of anthropogenic global transformations on terrestrial ecosystems.

It should come as no surprise that researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have found that fish populations in the oceans are contaminated with heavy metals like mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (DDTs and CHLs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), plastic compounds, and hexachlorobenzene.

Additionally, ships burn the dirtiest type of fuel – and where does the trash, sewage and oil-contaminated wastewater go from many ships? Every three years, ships deliberately dump more oil than the Exxon Valdez, and BP spills combined. Even the biggest, richest of them all, have been been convicted of environmental crimes – one by the U.S. Department of Justice for deliberately violating the entire maritime regime designed to protect the oceans, by illegally disposing of oil contaminated bilge water, while advertising itself as an environmentally compliant industry leader with the best available technology, violating MARPOL (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships). Routine and deliberate vessel pollution (f.e. at night or in rough seas when it is harder to identify bilge dumping) has been found in studies to be up to eight times the amount of pollution that comes from accidental spills.

Seabed mining

Moreover, mining operations, too, are poised to transform the ocean. Contracts for seabed mining already covered 460,000 square miles underwater in 2015, up from zero in 2000.

health care

The fact that our society is deeply sick, and we need to do something real about it is a sobering reality.

• The US spends the most on health care but has the worst health outcomes among high-income countries.
  
• More than half of children now have chronic health conditions.
  
• 1 in 6 kids live with a developmental disorder and 1 in 30 children have autism.
  
• Meanwhile, 1 in 10 kids will be diagnosed with ADHD and 1 in 12 kids will experience asthma.
  
• Each year there are steady increases in the numbers of new cancers in the UK and deaths from the same cancers, with no treatments making any difference to the numbers.
  

ENDOCRINE DISTRUPTING CHEMICALS

This should be making headlines and thoroughly investigated. Nevertheless, we need to have a multifactorial approach to understanding root causes of chronic illnesses and diseases, especially in children.

• Toxic chemicals in our food are linked to cancer, severe depression, and cognitive decline.
  
• With the proliferation of cell towers and tech devices, we are now being exposed to unprecedented levels of untested and unregulated wireless radiation exposure.
  
• Countless studies and news articles reveal the link between wireless radiation and cancer, declined sperm quality, and increased miscarriage rates.
  

A crucial point that Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has made is that lifestyle choices are not to blame for rising rates of diseases, cancer and obesity; these increases are the outcome of the toxic cocktails of pesticides and other chemicals we are consuming. Dr Mason has stated that none of the more than 400 pesticides that have been authorised (e.g. in the UK) have been tested for long-term actions on the brain: in the foetus, in children or in adults. She says that Theo Colborn’s crucial research in the early 1990s showed that endocrine disrupters (EDCs) were changing humans and the environment, but this research has not received enough attention. The most widespread herbicide in the world, is an EDC and a nervous system disrupting chemical.

In a book published in 1996, ‘Our Stolen Future: How Man-made Chemicals are Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival’, Colborn (d. 2014) and colleagues revealed the full horror of what was happening to the world as a result of contamination with EDCs. There was emerging scientific research about how a wide range of these chemicals can disrupt delicate hormone systems in humans. These systems play a critical role in processes ranging from human sexual development to behaviour, intelligence and the functioning of the immune system.

Colborn stated:

‘The concentration of persistent chemicals can be magnified millions of times as they travel to the ends of the earth… Many chemicals that threaten the next generation have found their way into our bodies. There is no safe, uncontaminated place.’

The periods of embryonic, foetal and infant development are remarkably susceptible to environmental hazards. Toxic exposures to chemical pollutants during these windows of increased susceptibility can cause disease and disability in infants, children and across the entire span of human life.

Dr Mason said that the Department of Health’s School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme (SFVS) has residues of 123 different pesticides analysed by PAN-UK that seriously impact the gut microbiome. Mason states that obesity is associated with low diversity of bacteria in the microbiome and many herbicides destroy most of the beneficial bacteria and leaves the toxic bacteria behind. In effect, she argues (citing relevant studies) that the world’s best selling weed-killer (and other biocides) is a major cause of gross obesity, neuropsychiatric disorders and other chronic diseases including cancers, which are all on the rise, and adversely impacts brain development in children and adolescents.

Dr Mason explains:

[…] ‘Each year there are steady increases in the numbers of new cancers in the UK and increases in deaths from the same cancers, with no treatments making any difference to the numbers.’

She concludes:

‘Britain and America are in the midst of a barely reported public health crisis. These countries are experiencing not merely a slowdown in life expectancy, which in many other rich countries is continuing to lengthen, but the start of an alarming increase in death rates across all our populations, men and women alike. We are needlessly allowing our people to die early.’ ”

Mental health

Meanwhile, we're swimming in a toxic soup and government leaders are failing to appropriately address these public health challenges. Is it any wonder that a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that almost everyone (about 80% of the population) will be hospitalized or receive psychiatric drugs for mental health illness at some point in their lifetime—and ultimately end up worse off in many ways after receiving diagnosis and treatment: more likely to end up poor, unemployed, receive a disability benefit, lead to worse health outcomes, earn lower income, live alone, be unmarried, have worsening social connections, and withdrawal symptoms also prevent people from being able to discontinue (Mad in America, 2023). Indeed, there is copious evidence that antidepressant use leads to worse outcomes in the long term, even after controlling for the severity of depression and other factors.

Professor Philippe Grandjean, the leader of the conference that issued the ‘Faroes Statement’, released the book: ‘Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development – and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation’ (2013). In reviewing the book, Theo Colbern said:

‘This book is a huge gift to humankind from an eminent scientist. Grandjean tells the truth about how we have been ruining the brain power of each new generation and asks if there are still enough intelligent people in the world today to reverse the problem. I cannot rid myself of the idea that too many brains have been drained and society is beyond the point of no return. We must learn from the follies and scandals that Grandjean reveals and stop the chemical brain drain before it is too late.’

Herbert Girardet (2023)

Visiting professor at the University of the West of England, a founder of the World Future Council, member of the Club of Rome, a trustee of The Resurgence Trust, and publisher of The Ecologist

[…] “Many decisions made today are not just affecting the next century, but millennial or even geological time spans. How can we assure a sustainable ecological base for human development, and fairness in the conduct of world affairs? Science tells us that we cannot continue on the current, suicidal path.” […]

“As never before, our decisions are affecting not just the next century or two, but millennial or even geological time spans. How can we protect the future from the unprecedented pressures of the here and now?”

[…] “Making infinite demands on a finite planet is threatening to render it increasingly hostile to life. But sustainable alternatives – in land use, industrial production and energy provision – have yet to be followed up to an appropriate degree.” […] “the future is ecological, or not at all. With an acute state of emergency on Earth, imperilling its climate, its life support systems and the lives of billions of people, can we create a better conceptual framework to ensure a plausible future for people and planet?”

“What is the primary issue that affects ‘the shape of the future’? It is surely the fact that, by and large, global resource

depletion and pollution are not accounted for in our economic balance sheets, and environmental externalities barely feature in the price of products available on the market. In a downward spiral of entropy, we are burdening future

generations with ever larger unpaid bills that we cannot be bothered to pay.”

“It is now glaringly apparent that there can be no viable future for humanity without a healthy planet. Its water, carbon and nutrient cycles support an immensely complex living system, powered by the sun. Mountain ranges, rainforests, wetlands, savannahs and coral reefs form the basis for a vast web of life. Humanity is part of this web, and Nature’s ‘ecosystem services’ are vital to all our lives. Their monetary value, estimated at an average of US$33 trillion per year, exceeds the value of the entire global economy. (NATURE, 1997)”

‘Precedents and decision making’

“The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, called on world leaders to end a ‘senseless and suicidal war against nature’. He added: ‘We know what to do. And, increasingly, we have the tools to do it ... I appeal to leaders in all sectors: lead us out of this mess.’ (United Nations, 2022)”

“A key factor is that decision making is mostly focused on immediate concerns: politicians have their eyes on the next election, and business leaders are fixated by quarterly balance sheets. This kind of short-termism invariably leads to compromised values and ethics.

Another reason why many crucial issues affecting the long-term prospects of humanity have not so far been adequately addressed is the fact that those benefiting most from the status quo are also best able to escape any negative consequences.

Meanwhile low-income countries, which did the least to cause climate change or other environmental impacts, will face the biggest costs as more and more of their land becomes infertile. A third of the world’s soil is moderately to highly degraded, threatening global food supplies, increasing carbon emissions and foreshadowing forced mass migration. (UNEP, 2017) The primary problem we need to deal with at the summit is our failure to respond to the great challenges of our time, despite having knowledge to do so.

But as the damaging effects of unrelenting material progress are evidently compromising the future, we are compelled to assure that long-term thinking goes centre stage.

For 25 years, sustainable development has been held up as the remedy for the world’s problems.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the world’s governments are a well-established framework for global collective action. But we have seen ever more pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change.

The term ‘sustainable development’ has been widely abused, particularly by commercial interests. It is time to think not just about sustaining the world’s badly damaged ecosystems, but about regenerating them instead.”

‘The amplified man’

“Inequality of global income is greater today than ever before. The poorest 50 per cent of the global population share just eight per cent of total income whilst the richest 10 per cent earn over 50 per cent of total income.

Since 2020, the top one per cent have managed to seize nearly two-thirds of the US$42 trillion in newly created wealth. (Christensen and Lelourec, 2023) Will our descendants face a future where a tiny minority live in utter wealth and comfort while vast numbers of people linger in destitution?”

[…] “Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature.” (The Holy See, 2015).

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