A million species of life are threatened with extinction worldwide. And this is how Trump responds. Doesn't surprise me at all, sadly. I agree with my mentor Tom Engelhardt, that history will judge this man guilty of crimes against humanity, for his position on climate change, and for the actions taken by his EPA. Now this, establishing himself as an enemy of life on Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-act-trump-administration-protection-changes
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/12/20802132/endangered-species-act-trump-weakening
"In May, a United Nations panel on biodiversity
released a massive, troubling report on the state of the world’s animals. The bottom line: As many as 1 million species are now at risk of extinction if we don’t act to save them.
Species of all kinds — mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, plants, marine life, terrestrial life — are disappearing at a rate “tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the last 10 million years” due to human activity, the report stated. It implored the countries of the world to step up their actions to protect the wildlife that remains —
like the endangered gray wolves and caribou that roam the United States, or the threatened polar bear in the Arctic.
The Trump administration has just done the opposite.
On Monday, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced they were pushing through changes to the Endangered Species Act that will, in effect, weaken protections for species, and possibly give industry more leeway to develop areas
where threatened animals live. A draft proposal of these rule changes was
announced last summer. And now the rules go into
effect in 30 days after they are officially published in the federal register (which the New York Times expects will
happen this week)".