Friday, November 28, 2008

Stop Bush's Dangerous Changes to the Endangered Species Act

I received this from my friend S Linda

For over three decades the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has
helped protect and defend over a thousand at-risk threatened and
endangered species and their habitats.

But now, the Bush Administration is pushing through 11th-hour
changes to the ESA that will dramatically weaken this important
law by curtailing scientific consultation and systematically
excluding the impacts of global warming from environmental
analyses.

Tell them not to do it.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?

These dangerous changes will have far-reaching consequences for
habitats, species and our communities. The bald eagle, grizzly
bear and gray wolf can be seen in our wildlands today because
Congress passed this seminal piece of legislation.

But as global warming increases, the threat to wild habitat
increases as well. In fact, the International Panel on Climate
Change has estimated that across the planet as many as 30
percent of species alive today will become extinct if global
warming continues unabated. Ignoring the impacts of global
warming will not make them go away.

These dangerous changes could be approved at any moment. Your
immediate response is needed today!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?

Please join with us in telling the Bush Administration to drop
its ill-advised last-minute attempt to eliminate scientific
consultation and consideration of the impacts of global warming
on threatened and endangered species.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?

Best wishes,

Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society

3 comments:

Sister Deborah Timmis said...

This is easy to do - letting your fingers type for justice.

Check this out too

Wilderness Blog

http://wilderness.org/blog

tap10george said...

I love how you explained everything Aunt Debbie, this is a wonderful topic with many different points and I must say yours is the greatest one i have heard, the ECA needs to stay as is and if not then it needs to be improved and not cut down. Animals are here for a couple of reasons and yes one is for food but the other is for the balance of the Eco-system.

George

Tap10forjusticeharold said...

We need to learn moderation no extreme is current if a person needs food than a person should be able to eat an animal, but it should never be legal for a person to shoot an animal just for game because the animal is here to nourish us and by shooting an animal and leaving it you waste that purpose, also you may mess up that eco-system by destroying something else’s food.