Fires, electromagnetic pollution, mass vaccinations, pesticides, herbicides, psychopharmaceuticals and waste… How long until extinction?
Man has never been so weak and dependent as in recent years in industrialised countries. For approximately 300,000 years men, in one way or another, earned their survival living and deriving benefit and sustenance from the environment. They had the strength and experience to build shelters, procure water, food and warmth. Already during the Second World War part of the Western population was no longer self-sufficient because they had moved to cities, and precisely those who lived in the metropolises suffered most from the lack of essential goods.
Scenes from a catastrophe
What would happen today to Western men if a catastrophe, a war or any unforeseen event occurred? We Italians – not to go fishing far away with examples – depend on Russian gas for heating, on Eastern European wheat for bread, on Arab countries’ oil for energy and transport, on American and Swiss seeds, fertilisers and pesticides for crops, on American multinationals’ platforms and servers for knowledge and socialising, on German medicines for health. In short, the life of us Western men depends on a handful of multinationals that decide our fates without most of us even being aware of it: we believe we are free, but we are probably more “enslaved” than our grandparents who worked the land as sharecroppers for the master, or at least we are in a different and more insidious way. This total dependence on all essential goods and comforts which we can no longer even think of doing without, has never existed in the history of humanity and makes us extremely weak. Our lives rest on the choices of corporations, companies that have their own profit at heart, not our wellbeing.
Francesco Rosso lives in close contact with the environment at Autosufficienza Farm
The children of men
And indeed nobody takes care of the health of the human species, on the contrary it seems that everyone – namely the multinationals mentioned above – contributes to the progressive weakening of present and future man, since pesticides, chemical substances, junk food, electromagnetic pollution, medicines are the main products of this industry. The effects are before everyone’s eyes every day: increase in degenerative and autoimmune pathologies, increase in cancers, including childhood ones, hormonal problems, progressive loss of fertility.
Recourse to medically assisted procreation is today the only possible choice to have a child for an ever-increasing number of couples. According to many studies, the percentage of millions of spermatozoa per millilitre would have almost halved in the last 50 years: at this rate the Western male population risks endemic infertility within little more than a century. What will happen when the reproduction of the species will depend totally on an external medical intervention, when the nutrition of our children and their health will be solely the prerogative of industry (I’m thinking of powdered milk, baby food and vaccines), when their relationships will only pass through social media, when men will be so physically, mentally and psychologically weak as to be totally dependent and manipulable by a consumerist system even more insidious and ramified?
Thanks to the industrial and pharmaceutical policies of the last half century the immune system that has carried our species forward for 300,000 years is today largely compromised. Every day a new vaccine is invented and many think that when they have vaccinated us all for all the diseases existing in the world, then finally we will be healthy. If pharmaceutical companies continue to be the champions of health, infertility and immunodeficiency will lead us to extinction. All animal and plant populations on Earth are subject to a balance, to an automatic selection that leads each species not to reproduce beyond a certain number to keep ecosystems intact. We men think we are exempt from such laws, we think we can reproduce infinitely, but perhaps it’s not so… The reality is that the more we move away from natural cycles the more disease spreads.
Be coherent
The solution to diseases is certainly not that proposed by pharmaceutical companies, but consists in having a strong immune system, which doesn’t need medicines. A strong immune system begins to be built before birth and is inversely proportional to the medicines and vaccines that the parents have taken. Natural conception and birth, possibly at home, are the foundation for developing a good immune system. Breastfeeding with mother’s milk, living in the open air, getting dirty, getting wet, doing physical movement is what best prepares the child’s defences. The intestine is the terrain for most diseases. We have the possibility of having a healthy and balanced terrain thanks to healthy nutrition or we can create imbalance thanks to industrial food and antibiotics.
However, we cannot limit ourselves to food: to maintain a good immune system physical movement is important, possibly in the open air and non-competitive. Our thoughts and stress are one of the main causes of lowering our defences, so if we want to be healthy we must lead a balanced and coherent life. To lower stress levels physical activity, yoga and meditation are perfect. Thinking something and doing the opposite lowers the immune system. Be coherent! Far from “stay hungry and foolish” (quote Steve Jobs).
Written by Francesco Angelo Rosso
