Conservationists or Environmentalists?

Campus Report ^ | May 16, 2008 | Melinda Zosh

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Conservationists or Environmentalists?

by: Melinda Zosh, May 16, 2008

Although the Endangered Species Act of 1973, signed by Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon, was intended to save thousands of plants and animal species, only a handful have been saved, but at an enormous human cost. “Five species have recovered out of 1355 species in the past 35 years,” said M. David Stirling, author of Green Gone Wild: Elevating Nature Above Human Rights.

Over that same time period, 50 million people have died from malaria and 10,000 jobs have already been misplaced, as a result of the act.

“I have a question,” one woman said from the audience at the Heritage Foundation. “What if polar bears are added to the endangered species list?”

The presenter thought for a moment, then answered. “There is no true evidence that the polar bear [population] is declining, but if the polar bear is listed, any place that gives off gas emissions in America could be shut down.”

Yet, Congress is willing to take “any measure” as proclaimed by the Supreme Court, to protect a couple insects and plants. In fact, the act even violates the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment says “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

Instead of justly compensating, Stirling, Vice-President at the Pacific Legal Foundation, said that the federal government took advantage of natural disasters and the disruption of the ecosystem by confiscating homes and property.

In addition, for the past four years, thousands of Pacific Coast Salmon employees have lost their jobs. Due to the Endangered Species Act, the Salmon Company cannot catch “wild salmon.” Thousands of salmon are released from hatcheries into the wild, but the Act does not recognize hatchery fish as “wild” even though they are exactly the same.

[Doomonyou]

Sooner or later these idiots are going to get ants, cockroaches, and mosquitoes classified as “endangered."

[COBOL2Java]

Sooner or later these idiots are going to get ants, cockroaches, and mosquitoes classified as “endangered."

But not humans. As far as they're concerned, Mother Gaia would be better off without us.

[FreeInWV]

For some unknown reason, the eastern diamondback rattlesnake is classified as endangered.

[george76]

Earth Day is Lenin’s birthday.

Coincidence or Communism?

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