While there’s much to celebrate this week as we recognize the 50th
Anniversary of Earth Day, the world made a baseline mistake in
developing environmental policy decades ago. It chose to treat nature as
an unlimited resource for humans. This baseline allowed policies to
fall short. It’s one of the reasons our planet is now superheating. Now, we are making that same mistake — leading to COVID-19,
SARS, and the swine flu — with factory farming and other forms of
ecocide that degrade the buffer between people and the pre-Anthropocene
environment.
Degrading that natural buffer exacerbates every risk, as mentioned above. With global heating, the next pandemic could be hiding in the arctic permafrost. Solving this baseline problem allows us to trace these back to an ultimate source, and perhaps to a solution.
We suggest one stop and two starts this Earth Day. The first step involves the cessation of factory farming and factory deforesting.
They’re the source of too many pandemics to allow these activities to
continue. The second requires laying down new laws, instituting rights
for both animals and nature. It’s the only way to enhance legal
protections so that egregious actions, like the ones that led to these
health and climate crises, are indictable. The third requires the
immediate restoration of what’s been damaged and the all-hands-on-deck
conservation of what’s left. A failure to do this and pandemics become
part and parcel of daily life...MORE
They say one stop and two starts. What they propose is actually three giant steps to the left, as they join the list of special interest groups exploiting the current pandemic to further a political agenda.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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