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The Trump administration wants to roll back the Endangered Species Act

posted 7 years ago by Rorikon (18389)
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/politics/endangered-species-act-animals-saved-from-extinction-trnd/index.html

President Trump's Interior Department proposed big changes to the ESA, part of the administration's sweeping rollback of what some view as burdensome regulatory red tape.

The changes could end the practice of automatically providing future "threatened" species with the same protections endangered species receive, with new protections for threatened plants and animals instead determined by "the species' individual conservation needs."

And if implemented, the proposed changes would also allow officials to consider the economic impact of protecting a species when enforcing the ESA.

Republican lawmakers have aimed to curb the reach of the ESA for years, claiming it hurts businesses, especially mining, drilling and logging.

But in the four decades-plus since it was enacted, the law has kept dozens of iconic species from being wiped off the face of the Earth.

Seems to be short term mass profits, long term disasters that lie ahead.

[–] PresidentJoffrey (396) 7 years ago

Yep this is typical Virginia school/Austrian free market economics that has taken over the republicant party.

Basically the government should be shrunk down as small as possible so that it's only purpose would be national defense and protection for property owners.

So the vast majority would live destitute in a toxic wasteland and be taxed to protect the small elite class from the majority themselves. Voting in drumpf and his Kochtapus cronies was a great step in that direction!! Way to go republicants!