The Environment
“Oh come on man – what does this have to do with sailing? I’m sick and fucking tired of Tempesta talking about politics. This is a sailing site.”
I have heard this pathetic, exclusively right-wing whine more times than I can count. There was a time, say anytime before the Orange Menace started destroying the environment, where I never had to publish anything like this, nor have you righties blow a gasket because of it.
But those times are long gone, and we are now living in a fascistic nightmare, where the goal is seemingly to kill and injure people and animals for no fucking reason other than theses authoritarians are brutal, cruel subhumans.
You righties may think otherwise, but who cares? You are wrong about everything. Fuck you. (Yes, that’s Trunt Jr. pictured left, who killed rare endangered sheep in Mongolia with special permit. How nice for him).
Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the activity’s purpose isn’t killing species. The memo issued by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik is the most drastic move yet in the Trump administration’s campaign to limit the scope of the Endangered Species Act.
Now, Nesvik is instructing wildlife officials that even the direct killing of endangered animals does not constitute an illegal “take” as long the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” Its instructions to staff on how to implement the new rule take effect immediately.
“A vessel that inadvertently strikes a whale has not taken it, because the vessel’s course was not set against the whale,” he wrote. “Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.”
Earlier this year, the Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies finalized a rule excluding the destruction of habitat from the definition of “harm” covered by the law. As long as chopping trees or draining a wetland didn’t directly kill animals, the feds said, those actions were legal even if they led to a species’ demise.
Now, Nesvik is instructing wildlife officials that even the direct killing of endangered animals does not constitute an illegal “take” as long the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” Its instructions to staff on how to implement the new rule take effect immediately. Read on.
Title inspiration thanks to RAGTM.
