(*ITOTD = Inconvenient Truth of the Day)
The Bush administration is proposing major (and deeply terrifying) changes changes to the Endangered Species Act. The plan would would allow federal agencies unprecedented degree of discretion to decide on their own- without ANY supervision- if their activities are harmful endangered species and the environment.
Seriously?!
Well, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne stands by this plan: “The existing regulations create unnecessary conflicts and delays.” I can see why it is annoying to waste time on protecting animals.
“We need to focus our efforts where they will do the most good,” Kempthorne added. “It is important to use our time and resources to protect the most vulnerable species. It is not possible to draw a link between greenhouse gas emissions and distant observations of impacts on species.”
Hmm… Really? In May, the polar bear became the first species declared as threatened because of climate change.
A new government study has come out stating that Americans waste (are you ready for it?) twenty-seven percent of all food available for consumption, and ninety-eight percent of that gets put in our landfills. That math equates to a pound of food wasted every day for every American. It may not be biodiesel driving up the price of food around the world after all.
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These Top 10 garbloggers are taking the world of trash to task by going to great lengths ““ and even extremes ““ to make sure their consumer waste stays out of the landfill. A garblogger, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is a green lifestyle blogger who writes about one particular slovenly subject ““ garbage. Our consumption compulsions are trashing the planet, they say, and their aim is to get folks thinking about what it really means when we throw something “away.”
