Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Read the last sentance of this extract.
How do you convince the world you're not writing them off when you're prepared to authorize the harvesting of their endangered species? How can you think that won't ultimately affect you?
John Constantine's Alien Colonists theory is looking more reasonable every damn day.
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 11, 2003; Page A01
The Bush administration is proposing far-reaching changes to conservation policies that would allow hunters, circuses and the pet industry to kill, capture and import animals on the brink of extinction in other countries.
Giving Americans access to endangered animals, officials said, would feed the gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that would allow poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their habitat.
This and other proposals that pursue conservation through trade would, for example, open the door for American trophy hunters to kill the endangered straight-horned markhor in Pakistan; license the pet industry to import the blue fronted Amazon parrot from Argentina; permit the capture of endangered Asian elephants for U.S. circuses and zoos; and partially resume the trade in African ivory. No U.S. endangered species would be affected.
Posted by P6 at October 11, 2003 12:13 AM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1944whoa, just then i almost made a reference to stephen king's the dead zone...but, uh, thought better of it.
by the way, if i have a heart attack or something in the next 24 hours, you should know that i am perfectly healthy.
"they live"...put on the sunglasses...
take back out planet!!!
And Americans keep wondering "why do they hate us?"
Why indeed.
"We had to burn the village to save the village." True then, and true in this situation.
Don't like the people buying them? Buy some yourself.