Hi, I've just joined the list recently, and will soon stop lurking! I'm really busy at the moment, so I'll introduce myself later - but I thought I would forward this message now (otherwise I'd never get back to it), in case anyone is interested in replying! It proposes a rather old approach to endangered species. (Sorry its quite long.) Niamh Moore. [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Orr * Waste Prevention & Recycling Program * UC Davis wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 24 06:23:03 1995 > Message-Id: <7398.199501240623@solx1_unix> > Via: uk.ac.earn-relay; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 06:24:23 +0000 > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:25:40 -0800 > Reply-To: Politics and the Environment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: Politics and the Environment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: David Orr * Waste Prevention & Recycling Program * UC Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: FOES of ESA - you ain't seen nothin' yet! > X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ...and you thought you'd heard it all? Please send an email to this "FOES" > group, and tell 'em what you think! > > > --- begin forwarded text > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Finish Off Endangered Species Action Plan > Date: Thursday, January 19, 1995 1:30:52 CST > > ------------------------------[Comments]------------------------------ > > Comment by: > Dale K. Thurber > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Following is a severely RADICAL action plan. It might seem amusing, but > these people are apparently serious! Feel free to duplicate and distribute > this action plan to others who may be interested. Although people who > write this type of material are unlikely willing or able to understand more > rational viewpoints, you may want to respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------- [Original Message] ------------------------- > > Finish Off Endangered Species (FOES) ACTION PLAN > > In a few short months, the Endangered Species Act will be history. This plan > explains how. > > America was a great country up to the late 1960's and early 1970's. Then, the > whacko environmentalists took over and passed crazy laws. And the craziest > law of all was the Endangered Species Act that said varmints, bugs, and > poisonous plants are more important than people. Think about it. That law was > passed in 1973, and that's when America really started going down the tubes. > The Endangered Species Act is another Viet Nam. Since the sorry day the > Endangered Species Act was passed, we have declined from our former greatness > as a human civilization. At the same time, the bugs, birds, and other vermin > have prospered. > > It's gone from bad to worse, and now thousands of hard working Americans and > their families have lost everything because of endangered species. It's a sad > day when people's homes burn down because of a stupid rat some fool put on a > list. When a whole proud logging industry dies because of an owl that is too > ignorant to live in healthy young tree farms. When we stop building dams that > are the envy of the world. The critters are taking over and dragging this > country down for the last count. Any nation that puts bugs before people is > endangered, and that is the US today. Bad science, unfunded mandates, and > taking private property all make good people the real endangered species. > > Why did this happen? Environmentalists are negative. They only know what they > are against. They're always telling people: "Stop everything! You're no > good!" They aren't for anything that has to do with people instead of their > birds, briars and bugs. They are against growth and they are against private > property. But they never met a critter they didn't like. They use endangered > species as a gimmick to try to stop growth and progress. For many years, they > fooled most of the people. But no longer. Now the people are taking back over > from the birds. > > How do we fix it? Now we control Congress. We must move fast to get rid of > this crazy law before people get confused again by environmentalist > propaganda. > > OUR MODEST PROPOSAL > > Never Re-authorize > > The Endangered Species Act has already lost its authorization. It happened in > the last Congress. That means it's already twisting in the wind. We must see > to it that it NEVER gets re-authorized. Endangered Humans Act, yes, > Endangered Species Act, never again. > > Choke Off the Appropriations Money > > Next, we must make sure our friends choke off all money to implement the evil > act. This will be easy to do. Starvation diet time! Easiest budget cut ever > made. > > Attack the Bureaucrats > > We will attack the pointy-headed bureaucrats who inflict the law on people. > We have a golden opportunity to get rid of the Fish and Wildlife Service and > the Nationalistic Biological Serbia. And guess what, we've got help! The > enviros don't like them either! Without the feds, the law is dead. But we > must move fast before they fool people into supporting them. > > Attack the Science > > ALWAYS call the science bad. It works! The media always cover it if there is > an opposing view. So tell people that endangered species is a fiction, that > all species die at the end of their cycle. Demand proof that any species is > really endangered. Talk about how the species that go are the effete ones > that couldn't make it and needed to be culled. Talk about how new species are > always evolving. Talk about how, if there are millions of species out there, > losing a few can't make any difference. Talk about how the list of species is > full of mistakes and has hybrids and other things that shouldn't be there. > Science mixes people up. It scares them. Americans want things simple. The > Know Nothings were right. We can help. > > Attack the Enviros > > The environmental extremists are running scared. And they should be! They > realize the people have spoken and their little gimmick is about to end. > Remember how weak they are. Many of them are asleep. Many are running away. > Many of them are fighting with each other and making blame. Their money and > memberships are down. They are eating their children. Their time is over. > Challenge them to show a single good thing the Endangered Species Act has > ever done for anyone. Challenge them to be FOR something human. > > Focus on the Bugs not Land > > We all know that the species aren't the real issue. LAND is the real issue. > But always keep the focus on the really stupid bugs and things that are on > the list, like Furbish's Lousewort or dung beetles. Anyone can see the > foolishness of that. We've got to get our land back from the whackos. > America's greatness is founded on freedom. A man should be free to do what he > wants to with the land. Cut the trees. Mine the ore. Dump a few chemicals in > the stream. Remind people we don't need all those critters. Just a few ducks > in the pond, deer in the wood, and hatchery trout in the river is fine, > that's all we need. > > Pass the Endangered Humans Act > > Our destiny, our shining vision, is to be a nation of shopping malls, > industrial farms, fast food franchises, freeways, and cozy homes from sea to > shining sea. A few zoos and neighborhood parks will give us all the nature we > need. And a few movies and documentaries. Or people can go up north to Canada > or maybe down to Mexico. If we keep any national parks, we should run plenty > of interstate highways through each one and charge a steep admission fee to > pay the freight for maintaining the place. > > But this destiny is endangered. The people who build our future have been > blocked. Some of them have given up. They need help. They need recovery plans > to put them back on their feet. We need an Endangered Humans Act that will > save the bulldozers and the chainsaws and the proud people who run them. We > will take the money we used to waste on critters and put it back into taming > the land. Soon the environmentalist will be the endangered species. > > The Final Solution > > Finally, if all other measures fail, and we still have an endangered species > problem in this country, we call on human supporters everywhere to take up > their arms. We control the bulldozers and most of the guns. We will finish > off the endangered species wherever they are hiding and win the final > victory. When all the endangered species are gone, there will be nothing > left to argue about. America will stand tall again, out from the shadow of > critters. > > The next time you see an environmentalist who isn't running away, wave this > plan in his face and ask him what he's going to do about it. And watch him > sweat. Just remind him that HE's going to be on the new endangered species > list! > > Please cross-post this plan everywhere! Permission is granted to re-post, > reprint, copy, or quote from this plan in whole or in part as long as FOES > Action Plan is cited. > > Copyright FOES 1995 > --- end forwarded text > > > > %% FOES of ESA - you ain't seen nothin' yet! >
