Not it's not. Public health and the poor are unfotrunate bystanders. The goal is nothing but financial gain.
Intentionally attacking public health and poor people for financial gain is not part of the war on the poor and public health?
Not it's not. Public health and the poor are unfotrunate bystanders. The goal is nothing but financial gain.
No. They don't really give a shit about those things one way or the other. It could be daisies or vampires. The objective is having more $$$ and the war is with having less $$$.
As the state of Virginia prepared for a major bridge and tunnel expansion in the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay last year, engineers understood that the nesting grounds of 25,000 gulls, black skimmers, royal terns and other seabirds were about to be plowed under.
To compensate, they considered developing an artificial island as a haven. Then in June 2018, the Trump administration stepped in. While the federal government “appreciates” the state’s efforts, new rules in Washington had eliminated criminal penalties for “incidental” migratory bird deaths that came in the course of normal business, administration officials advised. Such conservation measures were now “purely voluntary.”
The state ended its island planning.
The island is one of dozens of bird-preservation efforts that have fallen away in the wake of the policy change in 2017 that was billed merely as a technical clarification to a century-old law protecting migratory birds. Across the country birds have been killed and nests destroyed by oil spills, construction crews and chemical contamination, all with no response from the federal government, according to emails, memos and other documents viewed by The New York Times.
Not only has the administration stopped investigating most bird deaths, the documents show, it has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking precautionary measures to protect birds...
As the state of Virginia prepared for a major bridge and tunnel expansion in the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay last year, engineers understood that the nesting grounds of 25,000 gulls, black skimmers, royal terns and other seabirds were about to be plowed under.
To compensate, they considered developing an artificial island as a haven. Then in June 2018, the Trump administration stepped in. While the federal government “appreciates” the state’s efforts, new rules in Washington had eliminated criminal penalties for “incidental” migratory bird deaths that came in the course of normal business, administration officials advised. Such conservation measures were now “purely voluntary.”
The state ended its island planning.
The island is one of dozens of bird-preservation efforts that have fallen away in the wake of the policy change in 2017 that was billed merely as a technical clarification to a century-old law protecting migratory birds. Across the country birds have been killed and nests destroyed by oil spills, construction crews and chemical contamination, all with no response from the federal government, according to emails, memos and other documents viewed by The New York Times.
Not only has the administration stopped investigating most bird deaths, the documents show, it has discouraged local governments and businesses from taking precautionary measures to protect birds...
Australia's PM, Scott Morrison, who won the big election upset last year over Labor to stay as PM, is catching hell for his seemingly indifferent response to the crisis, not unlike Dubya and Katrina. When the bushfires first started his Deputy PM attacked people who made a link between climate change and the bushfires, saying that only "inner city raving lunatics" believed such things. On a visit to a devastated area, one person told Morrison that he should be “ashamed of himself” and that he had “left the country to burn” during a tour of the burnt out town of Cobargo (Morrison was vacationing in Hawaii when the fires blew up, and seemed reluctant to return, which has led to lots of criticism.) Morrison has since backed off denying any links between the fires and climate change and grudgingly admitted that there is a problem, but has also said that his policies on the environment and coal and mining aren't going to change. He's been accused of being a stooge of the coal and mining lobbies, which are big in Australia. Morrison is also a born-again Protestant fundamentalist, which is rare in Australian politics compared to the US (Morrison has been pushing a "religious freedom" bill in Parliament during the fires, which has drawn criticism.) I know some people who live in Melbourne, and the pictures they have shown on social media are frightening, although the fires have not reached the Melbourne area. I've also read an estimate that millions of Australian wildlife have died in the fires. What a world.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/02/australia-bushfires-tens-of-thousands-stranded-while-attempting-to-flee
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/02/pm-scott-morrison-defends-climate-policies-and-asks-australians-to-be-patient-over-fires
If that’s not a face you can trust then I don’t know what is