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U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species ActBy Lisa Friedman
Aug 12, 2019
WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would change the way the Endangered Species Act is applied, significantly weakening the nations bedrock conservation law and making it harder to protect wildlife from the multiple threats posed by climate change.
A bald eagle, one of the Endangered Species Acts success stories, near Castle Dale, Utah.
photograph by Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
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.
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. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190813
Beringia
(4,316 posts)The wealthy who want to eat up the world want to shut down the science of climate change dictating government policy.
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(1,124 posts)Average income rose from $6,460 to $8,016 per person. But this prosperity wasn't distributed evenly. In 1922, the top 1 percent of the population received 13.4 percent of total income. By 1929, it earned 14.5 percent.
On average, the stock market increased in value by 20 percent a year. It began rising in 1924. The number of shares traded doubled to 5 million per day.
One reason for the boom was because of financial innovations. Stockbrokers began allowing customers to buy stocks "on margin." Brokers would lend 80-90 percent of the price of the stock. Investors only needed to put down 10-20 percent. If the stock price went up, they became millionaires. This same innovation became a weakness when stock prices fell during the 1929 stock market crash. https://www.thebalance.com/roaring-twenties-4060511
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bdamomma
(63,918 posts)to the Defenders of Wildlife fund. As long as I am doing something to help.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Being on a fixed income, I'll just keep trying to publicize these very real problems. Renewable resources are available; and using them would alleviate or reduce problems the Opening Post describes, along with others, like health risks to ALL humans. But, big corporations and their political puppets are so short-sighted that they cannot see the forest for the trees, until there are no more forests or trees.
If these little wolf-puppies could write, they would thank you for your generosity too:
yonder
(9,669 posts)"Critically, the changes would also make it more difficult for regulators to factor in the effects of heavy alcohol use on liver/mental health when making those decisions because those threats tend to be decades away, not immediate."
We don't need no steenkin' science. So, shove it all down the road, we'll fix it later. Not.
This is a friggin abomination and we're looking at you Mulvaney/Miller.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Lyrics and especially the video take on profound meaning
Fake people deny or ignore climate change and focus on hot news, like Epstein: But, what is humanity's eventual fate?
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Stay away from endangered species.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Like mass-media, we are supposed to focus on Epstein and illegal aliens.