George Monbiot (There’s a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you’re thinking of, 20 November) is right to point out the devastating impacts of expanding livestock operations around the world. Yet, in dismissing the relationship between human population and climate, he contravenes the IPCC’s November 2014 report for policymakers, which states “Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the pre-industrial era, driven largely by economic and population growth, and are now higher than ever.”
Monbiot presents an outdated “either-or” approach to sustainability, where wiser dietary choices must supersede slowing down and stopping rapid human population growth as an…
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Exposing the Big Game 
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Energy-202-Trump-administration-wants-to-send-13143791.php
This is just going to be an inroad to weaken the ESA. I think some would be very happy if the world consisted of nothing but humanity and cattle. Some of the comments I have read about protection of fish are just atrocious as well.
^^Speaking of Ponzi schemes and other schemes. 😉
I usually like to read George M., but I don’t know where he is coming from with this. Why are cattle increasing? Because of an increase in human demand across the board. Making it about race when it isn’t, doesn’t help.
All true. Good points!
I should have posted this yesterday – it is appalling. This is what happens when environmental laws are weakened; in this case, weakening the Migratory Bird Act, where an ‘accidental’ or ‘incidental’ killing of a protected species is not a crime. I don’t know where ignorance fits in. The ignorance here is just astounding. Why would people take tern eggs and make a circle out of them, and for something as trivial as volleyball?
But the most frightening thing is that Trump is who the people voted for and wanted! The NYT has the best assessment of the situation. With the changes to the water laws, what will happen to the salmon: