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[quote]The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a law credited with keeping hundreds of species from going extinct.

The change would eliminate automatic protections for threatened plant and animal species, and make it easier for species to be removed from the list.

[b]Wildlife conservation groups say the proposed change could have disastrous lasting effects on at-risk species.[/b][/quote]

[i]What would they know eh? [/i]

[quote]The proposed change is the latest in a series of White House efforts to remove environmental regulations designed to protect vulnerable species and their habitats, as well as leave untouched some of America's most wild places.
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Shameful.馃槥

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44892275
windinhishair61-69, M
Of course they are doing this. Species have no use or interest in TrumpWorld, except to eat or kill so the area can be logged, mined, or otherwise developed. These changes would have a profound negative impact on a law that has been one of the most successful ever.

Here is a serious question: Has Trump ever been to a National Park in his adult life? Has he ever seen the Grand Canyon? Or Yellowstone? Or any other?
room10151-55, M
@windinhishair Of course he hasn't. But I hear that Don jr has.......to kill things 馃槦

Here's an idea, rename all of those national parks to trump Canyon or trumpstone etc and, maybe, he won't touch them.
windinhishair61-69, M
@room101 I get your point, but that would debase our national treasures.
room10151-55, M
@windinhishair fair point......but you could always change the names back once he's out of office. or in jail
DownTheStreet51-55, M
Once again thinking changes equals elimination. I鈥檝e had to deal with the government nutjobs in regulation and they live in their own universe and extend way beyond wha their reach was intended. Thankfully someone will take them on just like the epa crazies
katielassF
@HerKing [image deleted]
HerKing61-69, M
@katielass 馃ぃ
@katielass Now, why on earth would I need to block you??? Simply reading some of the low level drivel that comes out of your head provides me with much more entertainment than you will ever know!!!
windinhishair61-69, M
John Prine's song Paradise is appropriate here.

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus:
So he freeing up bullshit legislation to allow the drilling of oil or something ?
How about some more facts then just what you want the plebs to know..
Greenies
room10151-55, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout you really are a twat aren't you 馃う
QuixoticSoul41-45, M
@room101 He's also Australian, and obviously knows jack shit about US, our politics, the world in general, etc. This performance here is really something of a mystery.
room10151-55, M
@QuixoticSoul Which country has some of the highest rates of skin cancer on the planet? Skin cancer caused by the human depletion of the ozone layer.

Australia!

And this guy thinks that it's OK for us to keep screwing up our environment. Makes him an even bigger twat than I realised.

One little thing however. I'm not American either. I'm a British citizen and first generation immigrant. Just saying.
NorthwestM
This is needed. Jr and Eric need more things to shoot, and pose triumphantly with.
Graylight51-55, F
But don't we need more hotels, convention centers and strip malls?
SW-User
As more and more resources become limited this was inevitable. Greed for the present will fk humans future.
SW-User
@SW-User just few mishaps - Mississippi Delta Dead Zone. ...
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. ...
Ringwood Mines Landfill Site. ...
Picher Lead Contamination. ...
Love Canal. ...
Libby Asbestos Contamination. ...
Deepwater Horizon Oil Gusher. ...
Nuclear Weapons Detonations at the Nevada Test Site.
Jackaloftheazuresand26-30, M
sure is a lot of "could" in this, they are pushing fear
HerKing61-69, M
@Jackaloftheazuresand [quote]I don't think it really matters for a species to go extinct but pretend I did[/quote]


What does that even mean? You're okay with species going extinct so that you won't foot the minuscule (comparatively) bill to protect those endangered species?


Presumably you're adding to any petition to make Trump cut back on the cost of his weekend golfing jaunts he said he'd never have time for?
Jackaloftheazuresand26-30, M
@HerKing I'm okay with species going extinct because of a universal belief, this planet is doomed to destruction one day and what we have saved will not matter when we restart on another planet and that's if we even get that far.

Don't change the subject. I'm not happy about any unnecessary spending. The fact is I don't participate in government at all because it's a big show, so I'm not even pushing representatives to back Trump on this either. I speak my thoughts to the public so they will hopefully stop spreading stories like this.
HerKing61-69, M
@Jackaloftheazuresand [quote] I speak my thoughts to the public so they will hopefully stop spreading stories like this.[/quote]


What mic do you use? Telefunken U47? Neumann? 47-87?
katielassF
Thank god the left wing media has been putting this story in front of you all week, otherwise you might have had to dust off the old noggin and use it, assuming the battery is still good.
HerKing61-69, M
@katielass The queen of inane inconsequential bollox posts again!! Shouldn't you be cheering Trump up? He's all upset over his lawyer who he earlier denied was his lawyer.
tindrummerM

 
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