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U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, significantly weakening the nation's bedrock conservation law and making it harder to protect wildlife from the multiple threats posed by climate change.
The new rules would make it easier to remove a species from the endangered list and weaken protections for threatened species, the classification one step below endangered. And, for the first time, regulators would be allowed to conduct economic assessments — for instance, estimating lost revenue from a prohibition on logging in a critical habitat — when deciding whether a species warrants protection.
Critically, the changes would also make it more difficult for regulators to factor in the effects of climate change on wildlife when making those decisions because those threats tend to be decades away, not immediate.
Over all, the revised rules appear very likely to clear the way for new mining, oil and gas drilling, and development in areas where protected species live.
Also at NPR.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:56AM (4 children)
Same AC here. I put /s in it to make clear that it was sarcasm. Is sarcasm = troll? I am happy to in future phrase without double negatives, if that would be simpler.
I guess I was deliberately inciting (not insightful!) for using the North American centric first nations example, but that really is the parallel here.
Meanwhile, my intellectually honest (but sarcastic!) reply is lower-mod than the true-troll parent post. Surely people don't believe they are owed anything in exchange for what amounts to not killing other living things, and damaging other people? That would be extortion...
Anyways immediate topic at hand aside: in future, would a simpler phrasing, pointing out the fallacies in a comment, be preferred? I felt that would have less emotional impact, and the logic value would be identical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @08:55AM (1 child)
Therefore the vote of humans has precedence. Learn to live with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @11:37AM
Oh, I'm pretty sure you'll have the opportunity to learn to live with the consequences of your vote.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @11:46AM
It would probably help if your reply actually addressed the arguments made in the original post. I agree you didn't deserve a troll mod, but none of your sarcasm addressed the facts of what the OP stated. You made a moral argument agaisnt a legal claim and a factual statement. It is definitely easier to pump up short term growth by disregarding environmental factors and the American Indians did not have Constitutional protections that the OP claims Americans are suppossed to have. It is unclear if OP would agree or disagree with other enivromental laws that prevent you from polluting your own land, so that could have been a fair argument.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @03:48PM
Heh, you accuse people of being shills and then get surprised by a troll mod? More like confirmation mod! Yes, there are shills and/or morons spamming anti-human pro-greed screeds! For a long time now