Swordsmyth
05-08-2019, 11:59 PM
Not often I share an article from Washington Post these days, since it went totally off the rails batsh&t crazy as a biased asset of Jeff Bezos, and continues to lead the Don Quixotean charge of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Here you can see a WaPo hodge podge of scaremongering combining their hatred of both Trump and the Oil & Gas industry and WaPo's sobbing tears of grief about the bad guys bullying the Environment and a Beetle.
Apparently downgrading the Beetle's status after 30 years from "Endangered" to merely "Threatened" is cause for righteous indignation, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and general panic by the good peoples of the world. By good I mean you and me, not those horrible Trump-loving Oil & Gas Destroyers of the Universe.
Can you spot the hyperbole in this heartwrenching aricle about the Eeeeeevil Trump and the even MORE Eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil Oil & Gas Industry?
Trump administration heeds oil and gas industry calls to remove protections for imperiled beetle (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/05/06/the-energy-202-trump-administration-heeds-oil-and-gas-industry-calls-to-remove-protections-for-beetle/5ccf64e9a7a0a46cfe152c3f/)
< *insert cute cuddly beetle picture here* >
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https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F7KD73XM6LZC73 JN33VZIFAGCCQ.jpg&w=908 (https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F7KD73XM6LZC73 JN33VZIFAGCCQ.jpg&w=908)
An American burying beetle. (Lindsay Vivian/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The Trump administration said it plans to weaken protections for a beetle facing a threat of extinction from climate change, a move welcomed by oil and natural gas drillers lobbying for the change.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced (https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=conservation-partnerships-contribute-to-proposed--downlisting-of-american-&_ID=36402) last week a proposal to change the status of the American burying beetle from “endangered” to merely “threatened,” which would make it easier for oil and gas producers who must work around the insect when drilling and laying pipeline.
< *those meenies! Bad Trump! Bad Oil & Gas!* >
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But environmental advocates lashed out at the decision to lift the 30-year-old protections on the species. They say it's ironic since the beetle is imperiled by climate change, but removing protections will allow easier oil and gas drilling will only contribute to rising temperatures.
And the decision came just before a United Nations panel issued (http://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/05/06/one-million-species-face-extinction-un-panel-says-humans-will-suffer-result/) a major report warning that the world is on the brink of losing up to one million plant and animal species to extinction.
< *Chant with me now: Oil & Gas Kills Beetles* >
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The agency said it was following the letter of the law by listing the beetle as "threatened" rather than "endangered." "It fits that definition of not currently endangered, or at risk of extinction, but is within the foreseeable future," Stubbs said.
Preparing for that future, the Trump administration's plan calls for 213,000 acres of conservation area to be set aside for the beetle's southern population so it can later be reintroduced to the north once temperatures warm.
< *See, eeeevil Trump wants global warming* >
< *I can't go on, I'm sobbing too hard* >
https://community.oilprice.com/topic/5846-wapo-quixote-trump-administration-heeds-oil-and-gas-industry-calls-to-remove-protections-for-imperiled-beetle/
Here you can see a WaPo hodge podge of scaremongering combining their hatred of both Trump and the Oil & Gas industry and WaPo's sobbing tears of grief about the bad guys bullying the Environment and a Beetle.
Apparently downgrading the Beetle's status after 30 years from "Endangered" to merely "Threatened" is cause for righteous indignation, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and general panic by the good peoples of the world. By good I mean you and me, not those horrible Trump-loving Oil & Gas Destroyers of the Universe.
Can you spot the hyperbole in this heartwrenching aricle about the Eeeeeevil Trump and the even MORE Eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil Oil & Gas Industry?
Trump administration heeds oil and gas industry calls to remove protections for imperiled beetle (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/05/06/the-energy-202-trump-administration-heeds-oil-and-gas-industry-calls-to-remove-protections-for-beetle/5ccf64e9a7a0a46cfe152c3f/)
< *insert cute cuddly beetle picture here* >
...
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F7KD73XM6LZC73 JN33VZIFAGCCQ.jpg&w=908 (https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Farc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F7KD73XM6LZC73 JN33VZIFAGCCQ.jpg&w=908)
An American burying beetle. (Lindsay Vivian/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The Trump administration said it plans to weaken protections for a beetle facing a threat of extinction from climate change, a move welcomed by oil and natural gas drillers lobbying for the change.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced (https://www.fws.gov/news/ShowNews.cfm?ref=conservation-partnerships-contribute-to-proposed--downlisting-of-american-&_ID=36402) last week a proposal to change the status of the American burying beetle from “endangered” to merely “threatened,” which would make it easier for oil and gas producers who must work around the insect when drilling and laying pipeline.
< *those meenies! Bad Trump! Bad Oil & Gas!* >
...
But environmental advocates lashed out at the decision to lift the 30-year-old protections on the species. They say it's ironic since the beetle is imperiled by climate change, but removing protections will allow easier oil and gas drilling will only contribute to rising temperatures.
And the decision came just before a United Nations panel issued (http://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/05/06/one-million-species-face-extinction-un-panel-says-humans-will-suffer-result/) a major report warning that the world is on the brink of losing up to one million plant and animal species to extinction.
< *Chant with me now: Oil & Gas Kills Beetles* >
...
The agency said it was following the letter of the law by listing the beetle as "threatened" rather than "endangered." "It fits that definition of not currently endangered, or at risk of extinction, but is within the foreseeable future," Stubbs said.
Preparing for that future, the Trump administration's plan calls for 213,000 acres of conservation area to be set aside for the beetle's southern population so it can later be reintroduced to the north once temperatures warm.
< *See, eeeevil Trump wants global warming* >
< *I can't go on, I'm sobbing too hard* >
https://community.oilprice.com/topic/5846-wapo-quixote-trump-administration-heeds-oil-and-gas-industry-calls-to-remove-protections-for-imperiled-beetle/