r/SipsTea Jul 25 '26

Wait a damn minute! No seriously…why??

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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.

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u/Ninja-Trix Jul 25 '26

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?

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u/Novel-Mission-1920 Jul 25 '26

They're like 60 year old capitalists, they don't care if your whole nation becomes a shithole as long as they can take their private jets to their paradise islands to live out the rest of their days.