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Post by Aravis on Dec 4, 2004 18:07:47 GMT -5
Discuss the issues surrounding our endangered plants and animals.
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Post by Aravis on Dec 5, 2004 23:50:50 GMT -5
This New York Times article discusses how another Bush appointee to the Interior Department is trying to deny sage grouse the protections afforded under the endangered species act. If the grouse is given protected status, it will be inconvenient to the energy and cattle industries due to environmental factors. Ms. MacDonald does not have a wildlife biology background, but she does have a "strong property-rights background." That's helpful here, I'm sure. Based on her extensive knowledge therefore, she downgrades and denigrates the opinions of actual wildlife biologists in her bid to stop the protection of these birds. The final decision in the matter will be made by Dec. 29
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Post by Aravis on Jan 2, 2005 15:40:56 GMT -5
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 15, 2008 20:55:58 GMT -5
While the primaries are occupying our attention center stage, Bush, Cheney & Co. – Demolitions, are busy in the background tearing down the environmental safeguards which happen to inconvenience their good ole buddies in the energy business. www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/opinion/15tue2.html?th&emc=thWhat with climate change messing up their feeding grounds and exploratory drilling doing the same to the rest of their habitat, it’s not easy being a polar bear. Of course there is a kind of consistency, both the drilling and the warming being by-products of petroleum.
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Post by Tenarke on Feb 11, 2010 18:31:20 GMT -5
I just had to share this. I suppose that it goes here better than anywhere else. www.endangeredspeciescondoms.com/Note the snappy slogans. What with one thing and another I am no longer in the market for the lifetime supply offered here. However it comforts me that some randy young liberal such as I was in my youth will be able to pork away in a good cause.
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