Re: Genetically Modified Rhizobium a BIG CONCERN !!!

Frits v/d Laan (F.vd.Laan@inter.nl.net)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 18:34:16 +1

> Questions asked are:
> What happens when increasing amounts of nitrogen over normal amounts are
> taken out of the atmosphere, or increased amounts of nitrogen are
> introduced in the soil? What happens when the soil ecology is upset by
> a new race of man-made bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics used in
> farming and by humans to cure or prevent disease? By introducing such
> bacteria into the soils of our earth, are we not opening the door to
> modifying radically the nutrient flow structure of the earth?

Hi erik
I would like to add.

Not only will the lands ecosystem be decimized, the ecosystem in the
worlds oceans will be even worse of.
My fears are:
Algea will thrive, and a active upperlayer of life will be created in the
oceans. There will be a continuous "rain" of dead material from the
surface to the bottom, decomposing all the way down and using all
the oxigen from the water.
Except for the upperlayer the oceans rich ecosystem will die, and species
nobody have ever known about will dissappear.
currents that at the moment bring nutrients to coastal waters as the base
of a foodchain (algea / plankton/ fish) will in stead bring dead water to
the coasts. There are a few examples of (landlocked) seas that allready
have these (in this cases natural) 'green' surfacewater and dead below x
meters.

At the moment the agricultural phosphate surplus is also finding its way
into the ocean, Kalium is no problem in seawater, neither are other
nutrients. 'Greening' the world this way could hit back at us rather hard.

Frits v/d Laan
Biologische boomkwekerij/
Organic horticulture
Gouda - Netherlands
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/F.vd.Laan/
f.vd.laan@inter.nl.net

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