February 04, 2009
If the animal rights crowd thought they could skulk around the Utah wilds and sterilize the big game, they better think twice, because the hunters there are on to them: According to the AP:
Some sportsmen have expressed worry that animal rights groups will begin giving birth control to deer so their population levels will reach a point that they can’t be legally hunted.
Not taking any chances, the Utah state Legislature passed this bill today, which allows only authorized persons to inject wildlife with birth control.
Now let’s be clear: the mule deer in Utah are threatened on many fronts, from habitat loss to chronic wasting disease.
But animal rights advocates armed with birth control darts?
Category:
animal rights,
hunters,
Utah,
wildlife
February 04, 2009
To archaeologists and environmentalists in the Southwest, this decision probably marks the first real day of the Obama Administration.
I’ve covered the rancorous archaeology/energy/public lands debate extensively over the last few years, most recently here, here, and here.
Those days look over. Hey guys, what am I going to write about now?
Category:
Archaeology,
public lands
February 04, 2009
It’s back. This, from Jonathon Porritt, the British government’s environmental advisor:
“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.”
He says that “that having more than two children is irresponsible. It is the ghost at the table. We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don’t really hear anyone say the “p” word.”
The blowback didn’t take long:
“Now we have Porritt demanding smaller families in order to save the planet. So maybe the solution is the extinction of the human race? The argument for limiting family sizes in Britain is the first hesitant step in that direction.”
Don’t expect leading Green groups in the U.S to wade into these murky waters anytime soon. What happened to the Sierra Club a few years back still gives them the shudders.
Can’t we have a rational discussion about the p-word?
Category:
green groups,
population
