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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @08:45AM (3 children)
If you want Nature Reserve Earth, you HAVE to move humans somewhere else. And humans will object if your solution is to extinct them instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @01:37PM (2 children)
To allow humans to live in space requires MORE resources than living on earth, exponentially more.
Captcha: MalthusWASright
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @02:43PM
The two goals are not compatible; those who pay lip service to both at once, are endeavouring to reallocate other people's resources to their own pockets. Which is not nice.
Poor people look after their own selves and families, not wildlife and environment; any mutants that do otherwise, earn themselves a Darwin award and miss their chance to muddy the gene pool. It is how the world works. Any idea along the lines of "let's make the serfs poorer to save cute animalsies" is either not sane, or not honest.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 13 2019, @03:24PM
What does "exponential more" mean in a one step process? Nothing. Using 1% more resources is just as exponentially more as using 1000% more resources.