If his prison for migrant children wasn’t already
reprehensible enough, does President Trump rolling back the Endangered Species
Act in the name of economic concerns a death-knell for American biodiversity?
By: Ringo Bones
Back in Monday, August 12, 2019, the Trump Administration
announced it has finalized a controversial rollback of protections for
endangered species, including allowing economic factors to be weighed before
adding an animal to the list. Putting money before the environment – what could
be more morally reprehensible – Donald J. Trump Prison For Migrant Children
perhaps or declaring Mexican Americans as “invasive species”?
The Interior Department regulations would dramatically scale
back America’s landmark conservation law , limiting protections for threatened
species, how factors like climate change can be considered in listing decisions
and the review process are approved on their habitat. This is tantamount to the
Trump Administration letting GOP Rep. Steve King rape Mother Nature in front of
John Muir.
The Endangered Species Act was first passed in 1973 and is
considered a success globally, surpassing protections for flora and fauna in
many other countries. Environmentalists see it as one of America’s premier
environmental laws. Looks like this is another decent legislation from the
Nixon era that would be gutted by the Trump Administration’s so called
Hitlerian policies.
