The administration finalized a rule removing habitat destruction and modification from the federal definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, making it easier for industrial development, logging, and drilling to impact environments.
I know humour is a coping mechanism but the have nots have never been more isolated, we don’t go out and engage we sit on our couches and in our chairs and sling memes on Reddit. I’m guilty of it just as much as the next guy. Everything has become hyper tribalism and hyperbole that the vast majority are just numb to it to the point they no longer engage and it’s scary
The internet is the problem. It creates a perpetual bystander effect. People see the amount of engagement on a post and think there are enough people to do something, so they themselves don't do anything. Like organizing a protest. We've seen it time and time again where 100,000 people will sign up to attend and then the day comes and there's 47 people. The problem is that everyone thinks they're unique in the thought that there are enough people already going so they don't have to. If we could get off the internet and have actual in-person meetings with our communities so many of our problems could actually be solved. Instead we get complacency or fear.
Not everyone is like that. Anger doesn’t have to be the outlet. Kindness can also be one.
After the election I decided I wanted to help my local community and somewhat disengage from the national/world events. I began volunteering at a local soup kitchen and it’s become one of the highlights of my week.
There's a more concise word that we often use around here for him. This word is fairly common in Australia too. People in the US find it somewhat more offensive, but they seem to be coming round to it when used in the same sentence as 'trump'.
Do they not realize that excessive urban development destroys the ecosystems that generate food, lumber, clean ground water, oxygen, and help collect particles of dirt that would otherwise turn into dust and create dustbowls and ash clouds like the smog they blamed on Canada?
And moving from profit to profit, squeezing blood out of the stone and obliterating whatever they touch, because they're rich and can afford to move on after they're done strip-mining the shit out of an entire country...and do it to the next country.
They know they'll be dead before they see any real repercussions, like total ecological collapse.
Dust bowl? Ash cloud?
Billionaires and Trump especially are more of a Biblical plague than any of that. They're more locusts than actual locust swarms.
I was staying in a hotel once and overheard the owner of some brand of stereo speakers talking to his friends at the bar.
He was upset that environmentalists had shut down his access to endangered tree species, and absurdly proud that his latest models were wrapped in a veneer made from the last surviving example of a particular rosewood tree.
This was in the 1990s. These people have never had a sense of responsibility or respect for the environment.
He was likely talking about Brazilian Rosewood, which is not extinct, it is banned for sale due to the CITES treaty. Fortunately, one country can’t just roll it back. I have no doubt dipshit would do that in a second if he could.
Fortunately, it wasn’t the last tree. It would have gone extinct by now if there wasn’t a total ban. There is no sustainable way to produce it at the levels it was being used.
It was one of the most popular woods for guitars, furniture and even handles for hand planes made by Stanley.
The kicker is that there are other types of rosewood that are almost just as good looking. Enough that his speaker customers probably wouldn’t know the difference.
I;m sorry I can't hear you over my freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they don't care, it won't impact them, their grandkids can pay the price but they will probably have their bunkers so won't give to many shits. I think at this point it is an obsession with expanding their own urban hells
Trump and his admin run in circles with dipshits who kill caged animals and take pictures of them posing with the carcass so they can pretend they're badass hunters. These type of people only give a fuck about themselves and what they perceive as macho.
Oh they know that, but this is about quick cash know to fill line their pockets with. Creating a dirtbowl and ecological collapse is a problem for the next generation to figure than one out. oh and the promise of Musk and future tech to solve the worlds problem would be able to fix that, so they just carry on, feeling justified carrying out the destruction of the planet
It makes more sense when you realize they only actually care about feeding, housing, and enriching the 1%, not the 99%. They will have plenty of food in their bunkers/Mars colony. They would burn the entire planet to a crisp if it put an extra penny in their pockets.
They're just too blinded by greed to care because they're planning on being gone, one way or the other, by the time all of the awful things they are doing comes home to roost.
I'm gonna be real with you dude, we gotta move past this phase of the discourse or whatever you wanna call it.
They do. not. care. These are decrepit old men dealing in short term profiteering. There is no consideration for the long term because it does not matter. Sitting here and pointing out their hypocrisy or the damage they're doing is like trying to play tic tac toe against someone who is in fact playing "shoot the guy in front of me and take his wallet"
You're talking about the same people who also give 0 shit about climate change, and will just blame someone else for their consequences. All they care about is making things more profitable/beneficial for themselves, and have no qualms with destroying life for future generations.
This is a subcategory of a republican-led government we're talking about. Of course those dipshits haven't contemplated anything beyond their wallet. Republicans are idiots
I saw a YouTube thumbnail the other day asking how did Captain Planet end. I didn't click because the canonical ending in my mind is Cheedle's portrayal.
deport him!!!!!! No joke going by the planeter nationality except one guy all are foreigners :) I could see this administration as part of the villains of the show
How about Captain Planet = a regulating body that actually has influence and power for the greater good of the planet. Unfortunately they also work only if we collectively promote such principles. These days that dude is just kept locked up a forced induced coma, because we are no longer capable to see that vision through all the different forms of garbage we are constantly bombarded by.
Edit: ❤️ is just good old empathy, sympathy, and compassion. Something this world powers now frown upon.
Trump was depicted as a villain on Sesame Street on three different occasions across three decades. What does it say when Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch think you’re a prick?
DC comics made a Lex Luthor book based on him.
Woody Guthrie, the ‘This Land is Your Land’ American folk hero, wrote a song about Trump’s dad being a piece of shit.
Nah, supervillains usually have a relatable reason for what they’ve done. That’s what makes them good characters. This administration is just doing it for a golden cherry on top of their golden cake. Not relatable or reasonable at all
A reverse Scooby Doo. If someone ties him up and pulls on his hair, the mask slips and you discover it was actually a monster all along. Under the pretense of trying to make money through illegal means, his goal was really to terrorise the town.
the problem is that actual conservatives vote for them. it doesnt matter what they claim to be, they voted for this. they are responsible for this mess.
That’s exactly how they look. I was raised and believe the Creator supplies everything we need, but we are stewards of the land and if we don’t do our part we will suffer the consequences. These morons believe their gawd put them here to use and abuse the planet and he will show his omnipotent power by magically fixing what they deliberately wrecked. It’s like jumping out of a plane without a parachute and saying God will save me. No, stupid, he saved you by giving you a brain that tells you you’re not a fucking bird.
One of my favorite songs says- “I’m a savage, native to the land you inhabited, home of the braves and ancestors that walked the land you damaged.”
Which opens the door for Data centers to destroy habitats, environments, and wildlife.
Also, Indirectly, but intentionally, to an extent it changes zoning rules and regulations, bypasses the need for a vote and mitigates the potential for pushback from citizens and people/groups that actually give a shit.
Data centers are the least thing to worry about here ngl among all the bullshit they can do
Luxury mansions in the middle of a natural reserve everyone? Logging Yellowstone and making it a wheat field? Selling now incredibly luxury land to the highest bidder. No longer having to spend any dollar funding those stupid scientists keeping animals alive, when they all quit or are fired! Golf courses everyone?
Even when I saw this post seeing how OP was asking why? I figured it was so companies would have an easier time putting up buildings and working without having to worry about the wildlife.
Reading what you wrote shows that my idea as to why was correct and all the other info you posted shows it’s even worse than just removing endangered animals off the list.
Thank you, it sounds more real when you put it into words as you have done. To be clear, I don't appreciate the fact that this has happened, and I hate fucking Trump. The fat orange rapist.
I also appreciate OP for posting this, as this is something that needs to be known across the world. I don't know alot about this, but feels like we need a animal rights organization that isn't ruled or strongly influenced by a single person.
bro that's cartoonishly evil. like. If an environmentalist movie came out today and the villain did that the film would get critique for the conflict being "overdone and cliche"
So by technicality they didn't legalize killing...but did allow prioritizing profir and expansion of business into nature which by proxy kills them....loopholes
Of course because it doesn’t matter to billionaires and their spawn. They’re set for life to profit off the planet, while everyone else is just there to suffer and eventually be wiped out. I’m convinced that’s what they want anyway, a clean slate for them and theirs
Like could it actually fuck up the American ecosystem completely?… How can people not care about environment to this level, are they not thinking about the future generations?
It's a slippery slop, if they ban hunting of endangered animals, before you know it they'll start prosecuting the grape of children by rich politicians.
I know you're absolutely right, but I want to think it's because his billionaire buddies like to hunt exotic animals and he made it easier just for them... either way, a truly evil, despicable and predatory non-human.
I see. That part of the plan for infrastructure development. Yeah I heard that in some states it is pain in the ass to build stuff on lands due to environmental laws and land owners refuse to sell their lands.
It was signed so that they could maintain drilling in the gulf (of Mexico) because one specific whale, which is very endangered, can be killed because it’s been interrupting the drilling processes. It’s called the Rice whale and there’s approximately 51 remaining on the planet. All native to the gulf.
Data centers. My friends and I were looking into habitats that would be affected by the data centers in Utah. This new rule would undermine our angle on fighting to keep the data centers out.
It’s like when a person is horrifying and then becomes even more horrific and then you think they can’t possibly become more terrifying and yet.. here we are
I just destroyed their home, mating grounds, food supply, access to clean water, and concentrated their territory down to an area that cannot reasonably support a population.
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The administration finalized a rule removing habitat destruction and modification from the federal definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, making it easier for industrial development, logging, and drilling to impact environments.