The Endangered Species Act

[4est_4est_Gump]

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CRISPR has created a brave new world that medical authorities are scrambling to understand and to devise effective ethical and regulatory structures.

A related question, so far not addressed or even presented, is the status of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The original purpose of the ESA, which was passed in 1973 when gene technologies like CRISPR were not even on the horizon, was to protect species that were critically imperiled so that their genes could be preserved for posterity. This original purpose appears to be unnecessary now that genetic techniques can modify or even create organisms with any desired characteristics.

As we know the ESA was hijacked by radical environmentalists to stop business development, destroy industries, and eliminate peoples’ livelihoods and recreational activities. If logging operations imperiled a rare owl, if housing construction impinged on the habitat of an exotic toad, if water projects or oil drilling made life more difficult for a tiny fish, extremists emerged to demand a halt. Trapping, hunting, fishing, and public use of federal and other lands were likewise made verboten. Lawsuits exploiting the ESA’s extreme interpretation became the favorite tools of the Left to bring about increased federal control over the West, metastasizing a well-meaning law into lifetime employment for sleazeball enviro lawyers and a horrific tool for oppression of the American way of life.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog...red_species_act_endangered.html#ixzz3xJTKnxUm

Interesting turn of events...

Waddaya think?

 

[Queersetti]

What could go wrong?

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Bring on the Mastodons!

 

[Ishmael]

Bring on the Mastodons!

Well now, that would indeed be a dilemma for the left. Mastodons would have to be copious methane emitters.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Gotta fill up Canada with something...



Plus, they might be good eating! And since we're entering a new mini-ice age...

 

[Disgustipated]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78D8yW5c6cQ