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Bush Admin Changing Environmental Regulations, Urgent

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Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · News & Politics

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i double checked my numbers, and 150 species a day would add up to about 56,000 a year. this is still within the most pessimistic estimates (which are as high as around 140,000 species a year). 

http://www.alternet.org/story/98065/we%27ve_got_one_week_left_to_stop_one_of_bush%27s_worst_environmental_attacks/

INSTRUCTIONS: 

Go to www.regulations.gov and use the search terms: "50 CFR Part 402 proposed rule."

The proposed changes are in Document # EB - 18938

To see the proposed changes, click on "View this document"

Click on "Send a comment or submission" to write your comment.

Note that plain e-mails will not be considered. This is another way public input is being limited.

Write your comments before September 15, 2008.

My message to the Feds: 

We are in the middle of the largest extinction event since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 
million years ago, and it is a direct result of our human presence on this planet. Granted, more 
than just the United States is responsible for this catastrophe, but that doesn't mean we cannot 
play a significant role in trying to lesson our footprint within our own boarders, nor does it mean 
that our example is not a significant influence upon the rest of the world. We ought to be taking 
the lead on this issue, strengthening our ecological regulations. Our economy is important, but 
the ecosystems that sustain our existence on this planet are more important. Economies cannot 
grow indefinitely. We live on a single planet with finite resources. WE ARE IN NO POSITION TO 
BE LOOSENING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION TO BENEFIT PRIVATE CORPORATE 
INTERESTS. And it is not important to protect wildlife (only) because we have some kind of 
emotional attachment to various species, or because we find some animals aesthetically 
pleasing, or because they will suffer as a result of our expansion, resource depletion, and 
pollution; it is important because a loss of biodiversity has a direct effect on the quality of our 
human lives. We depend on certain ecological relationships to grow and pollenate our crops, to 
catch our fish, to produce the air that we breathe, etc (nature does all of this for free, mind you). 
At the current rate of extinction (approx. 20,000 species a year, most of which have not even 
been scientifically cataloged yet), our planet could face a drastic collapse of its life carrying 
capacity within decades, and we humans could very well be among the species affected. We are 
slowly pulling out the columns acting as foundations for a rather large building, and while on the 
surface everything may look fine, below ground the whole structure is nearing the verge of 
sudden and dramatic collapse. PLEASE RECONSIDER THESE CHANGES TO THE LEGAL 
LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT. OUR PLANET 
DEPENDS ON IT.

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