We love you beetles o yes we do...
...so sing the animal rights nutcases.
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In California where there was once fertile farm land, acres have turned to dust and farmers are jobless not producing because irrigation was shut off to protect some crazy little fish on the endangered species list. Across the country, right here in Chesapeake Country comes tales of the Puritan Tiger Beatle.
The Puritan Tiger Beetle’s habitat rests along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay along a region known as Calvert Cliffs. Erosion problems are causing these largely soft earth cliffs to tumble into the bay without corrective construction. Home owners are seeking to erect barrier walls and seek other measures to save their homes from plunging into the bay.
Because that action would disrupt the national habitat for this precious insect, their requests are being denied and the property owners are basically being told, “tough luck.”
There is no factor that determines the survival of species more so than Mother Nature herself, but where some ideologue environmentalists can influence law and policy, the temptation to play God over activities that have serious human consequences is just too much to resist.
Some of the nation’s best farm land stands dry when California’s economy is a disaster. Where’s that food stuff going to come from? Communist China?! Now within commuting distance of the great logic free zone of Capitol Hill comes an uproar to save a bug.
If this doesn’t bug you, what does?
More background from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402962.html
The Puritan Tiger Beetle’s habitat rests along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay along a region known as Calvert Cliffs. Erosion problems are causing these largely soft earth cliffs to tumble into the bay without corrective construction. Home owners are seeking to erect barrier walls and seek other measures to save their homes from plunging into the bay.
Because that action would disrupt the national habitat for this precious insect, their requests are being denied and the property owners are basically being told, “tough luck.”
There is no factor that determines the survival of species more so than Mother Nature herself, but where some ideologue environmentalists can influence law and policy, the temptation to play God over activities that have serious human consequences is just too much to resist.
Some of the nation’s best farm land stands dry when California’s economy is a disaster. Where’s that food stuff going to come from? Communist China?! Now within commuting distance of the great logic free zone of Capitol Hill comes an uproar to save a bug.
If this doesn’t bug you, what does?
More background from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402962.html
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