{"id":30509,"date":"2022-01-21T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=30509"},"modified":"2022-01-20T18:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:49:27","slug":"global-chemical-pollution-exceeds-safe-limits-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2022\/01\/global-chemical-pollution-exceeds-safe-limits-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Chemical Pollution Exceeds Safe Limits for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 21, 2022) The bottom-line conclusion of a recent study is that global chemical pollution has now exceeded a safe limit for humanity. As reported by The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends.\u201d Published in Environmental Science & Technology<\/em><\/a>, the research paper asserts that the creation and deployment (into the materials stream and environment) of so many \u201cnovel entities\u201d (synthetic chemicals) is happening at a pace that eclipses human ability to assess and monitor them. The study team calls this exceedance of the \u201cplanetary boundary\u201d of such chemical pollution \u201cthe point at which human-made changes to the Earth push it outside the stable environment of the last 10,000 years.\u201d<\/a> According to Beyond Pesticides, which covers pesticide (and other kinds of) chemical pollution, these results underscore a grim twin reality to the human-caused climate emergency<\/a>, and should be a dire warning on the state of our shared environment and a time for systemic movement to eliminate fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers.<\/p>\r\n

Hailing from Sweden, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, and Switzerland, members of the research team define \u201cnovel entities<\/a>\u201d as those compounds and materials introduced by humans that \u201care novel in a geological sense and that could have large-scale impacts that threaten the integrity of Earth system processes.\u201d The novel entities that have so suffused Earth\u2019s air<\/a>, water<\/a>, ecosystems and biodiversity<\/a>, wildlife<\/a>, and human bodies<\/a> comprise 350,000 synthetic chemicals \u2014 including persistent organic pollutants (POPs<\/a>) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs<\/a>) \u2014 found in plastics, synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, industrial and manufacturing compounds, antibiotics, degreasers, cleaning agents, and many other commodities. Only a tiny fraction of those 350,000 compounds has been assessed for safety, yet many are now found in human tissues. (See the Beyond Pesticides web page on \u201cbody burden<\/a>\u201d of synthetic chemicals and the relationship to disease development.)<\/p>\r\n

Although there is no consensual metric attached to the category of \u201cnovel entities,\u201d the researchers assert<\/a> that the human introduction of them is globally concerning because \u201cthese entities exhibit persistence, mobility across scales with consequent widespread distribution and accumulation in organisms and the environment, and potential negative impacts on vital Earth System processes or subsystems.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The introduction of synthetic chemicals<\/a> into the materials stream began in 1869 with the creation of chloral hydrate (a sedative) and the first nearly synthetic polymer, celluloid, which was developed as a substitute for ivory. Such innovations, which began in the 19th<\/sup> century as a trickle of new compounds and materials<\/a>, yielded in the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century materials such as nylon, Bakelite (the first fully synthetic plastic), and the first synthetic fluorocarbon. But it was the advent of World War II and the decades to follow that opened a firehose of new materials, as military\u2013industrial research spawned a universe of new chemicals and materials.<\/p>\r\n

Many of those were plastics; during the war, U.S. plastic production increased by 300%. The plastic surge continued throughout the rest of the 20th<\/sup> century, and is unabated today. Indeed, 2020 estimates clocked the amount of plastic in the world at roughly 8.3 billion tons \u2014 with 6.3 billion of those tons being \u201ctrashed\u201d plastic. As the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) invites us to consider<\/a>: \u201cImagine 55 million jumbo jets and that’s how much plastic exists.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Beyond plastics, the 20th<\/sup> century spawned a new world of chemical compounds that were engineered into nuclear and chemical weapons, pesticides, and the universe of nearly 5,000 PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl) substances, among others. Patricia Villarrubia-G\u00f3mez, a PhD candidate and member of the research team, commented<\/a>, \u201cThere has been a fiftyfold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950 and this is projected to triple again by 2050. The pace [at which] societies are producing and releasing new chemicals into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Were all these synthetic compounds chemically inert, the implications for human and environmental health might be quite different. However, biological organisms do<\/em> interact with many of them<\/a>, causing largely unknown, unpredictable (except as they are studied retrospectively), and frequently, harmful impacts to all manner of organisms, from archaea to armadillos to humans (never mind the ecosystem impacts<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n

The extensive chemical pollution this study documents is a threat to the functioning of Earth\u2019s systems because, as The Guardian<\/em> writes<\/a>, it damages \u201cthe biological and physical processes that underpin all life. For example, pesticides wipe out many non-target insects, which are fundamental to all ecosystems and, therefore, to the provision of clean air, water and food.\u201d Rebecca Altman, PhD, member of the Board of Directors of Science and Environmental Health Network, has written in the article, \u201cTime-bombing the future<\/a>,\u201d this pithy sentence: \u201cSynthetics created in the 20th<\/sup> century have become an evolutionary force, altering human biology and the web of life.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The study paper notes that toxic plastic pollution \u2014 which is now found, as The Guardian<\/em> puts it<\/a>, \u201cfrom the\u00a0summit of Mount Everest<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0deepest oceans<\/a>\u201d \u2014 is of especial concern. One of the researchers, Professor Bethanie Carney Almroth, commented<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s evidence that things are pointing in the wrong direction every step of the way. For example, the total mass of plastics now exceeds the total mass of all living mammals. That to me is a pretty clear indication that we\u2019ve crossed a boundary. We\u2019re in trouble, but there are things we can do to reverse some of this.\u201d The research paper asserts that the high social (health, environmental, economic, et al.) costs of the impacts of these \u201cnovel entities\u201d are a potent argument for strong and urgent action.<\/p>\r\n

According to The Guardian<\/em>, Professor Sir Ian Boyd of the University of St. Andrews notes<\/a>: \u201cThe rise of the chemical burden in the environment is diffuse and insidious. Even if the toxic effects of individual chemicals can be hard to detect, this does not mean that the aggregate effect is likely to be insignificant. Regulation is not designed to detect or understand these effects. We are relatively blind to what is going on as a result. In this situation, where we have a low level of scientific certainty about effects, there is a need for a much more precautionary approach to new chemicals and to the amount being emitted to the environment.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The researchers say that stronger regulation and a fixed cap on chemical production and release are needed \u2014 initiatives analogous to the maximum carbon targets that have been established (if not necessarily honored) in some locations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly, members of the global science and health communities are calling for action on reining in the flow of synthetic chemicals and\u00a0plastics<\/a>, into the environment \u2014 including the establishment of a\u00a0global scientific body for chemical pollution<\/a>\u00a0akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n

A 2009 study<\/a>, \u201cPlanetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity,\u201d asserts that there are nine \u201cplanetary boundaries\u201d within which humans should operate in order to avoid disastrous consequence. These boundaries relate to climate change, biodiversity loss, the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorous cycle, stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean acidification, global freshwater use, changes\/intensification of land use, atmospheric aerosol loading, and chemical pollution. The study authors note that in 2009, three of those nine interlinked planetary boundaries<\/em> had already been transgressed.<\/p>\r\n

In late March 2021, Mongabay<\/em> published<\/a> an article, \u201cThe nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable,\u201d which set out a very slightly revised system of boundaries and a sober warning. \u201cAll life on Earth, and human civilization, are sustained by vital biogeochemical systems, which are in delicate balance. However, our species \u2014 due largely to rapid population growth and explosive consumption \u2014 is destabilizing these Earth processes, endangering the stability of the \u2018safe operating space for humanity.\u2019 Scientists note nine planetary boundaries beyond which we can\u2019t push Earth Systems without putting our societies at risk . . . . Humanity is already existing outside the safe operating space for at least four of the nine boundaries<\/em> [emphasis by Beyond Pesticides]: climate change, biodiversity, land-system change, and biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus imbalance).\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The subject study confirms that humankind has now pushed past the fifth of the nine boundaries<\/em> in its planet-wide synthetical chemical pollution that is damaging the biological and physical processes that underpin all life. Beyond Pesticides has long taken to task the regulatory bodies in the U.S., particularly the Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> (EPA) for its multitude of failures in regulating pesticides. But EPA also regulates non-pesticide synthetic chemicals and materials, as do other federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).<\/p>\r\n

Comporting with Professor Boyd\u2019s points, Beyond Pesticides has repeatedly asserted that a \u201cwhack-a-mole\u201d approach to regulation of pesticides, and toxic synthetic chemicals broadly, is decidedly not a precautionary way forward. What is needed urgently is a holistic, precautionary approach to the deployment of all<\/em> synthetic chemicals, domestically and around the world, given the apparent lack of urgency among policymakers to take action, and the piecemeal chemical regulations that abound in the U.S. and abroad. As noted previously, the researchers are recommending an international body<\/a> to address these issues.<\/p>\r\n

Beyond Pesticides wrote<\/a> in its Pesticides and You<\/em> journal two winters ago (see p. ii): \u201cWhen we advance reform, we do not want to just tinker with a failed risk assessment-based regulatory system. . . . We want to eliminate the use of these toxic materials, starting from the ground up. This means that we, as a part of our decision-making process \u2014 whether in a community or [in] federal law \u2014 must look at whole ecological and biological systems, the range of interactions that are possible, and reject any harm. With alternatives available, there is no reason to accept anything less.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Sources: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jan\/18\/chemical-pollution-has-passed-safe-limit-for-humanity-say-scientists<\/a> and https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.est.1c04158#<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Environmental Science & Technology<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an \u201cenvironmental science and technology research journal that aims to be transformational and direction-setting, publishing rigorous and robust papers for a multidisciplinary and diverse audience of scientists, policy makers and the broad environmental community.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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