Friday, May 20, is Endangered Species Day. Take a look at the poster above promoting the special day
Friday, May 20, is Endangered Species Day. Take a look at the poster above promoting the special day. Notice which species is missing? Humans.If I had in front of me, right now, a consequential US politician, I would propose that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service propose that humans be listed as an endangered species. If that fails, then promoter organize a petition drive, and then that petition be presented to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, after signatures by millions of Americans, to list humans as endangered species. To support the assertion, I’d point to the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis. Humans cannot survive as a species if the climate cooks or drowns us or deprives us of food, nor can we survive on our own: we require the contribution of all species on Earth as a synergetic approach to life.We would then propose that the critical habitat for humans as endangered species be the Earth. Which means that the federal regulatory apparatus can be activated to control nitrogen run-off from farms, toxic chemicals puked into the air or the water by industries, the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the adherence to monoculture farming, and add to the list ad nauseam.Would this work? Of course not, because the billionaire class would be threatened, meaning that existing political class would be threatened, meaning that industry would be threatened, meaning that billions would be spent on legal fees with everybody suing everybody else. But think of the symbolic value of all that. -- source link