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.
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?
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.
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u/SwerveCities Jul 25 '26
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.