https://time.com/6549548/endangered-species-act-50-years/
"The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old Thursday. In recent years, the act
has become a pawn in partisan battles over federal regulatory powers, with
opponents arguing the law infringes upon private property rights and places
restrictions on industries such as logging, mining, and oil and gas extraction.
Republicans introduced 52 bills in 2018 and 15 bills in 2022 in attempts to
weaken the act.
But focusing on these partisan debates overlooks the Endangered Species Act’s
successes. For decades the act has protected nature with widespread and
bipartisan support, rescuing hundreds of animals and plants from annihilation.
Even more consequentially, the Endangered Species Act revolutionized federal
environmental management at a time when the government itself was a main threat
to wildlife. This is the act’s least recognized and most significant
accomplishment: it transformed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from a
wildlife killing service to a wildlife recovery service and helped to birth the
global science of restoration ecology."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-malaria-vaccine-reforestation-china-poverty-india/>
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
