The first key change to the act, according to The New York Times, involved requiring regulators to take economic costs into account when making decisions related to protecting species from extinction. The law previously required regulators to rely entirely on science in their decision-making.As fucking always, the meaning of "science" is perfectly reversed. If we really did make decisions based on science, we would abolish the "Endangered" "Species" act. Darwin tells us that the fading and dying of a local population is the HEART AND SOUL of evolution. Adaptation happens when a local population dies out and makes room for species that are more suitable for the current situation. The ESA explicitly violates evolution by forcing a species to remain in the niche after it should have gone away. The ESA breaks Nature and breaks science. Earlier laws on the subject were PRO-SCIENCE. Laws to control hunting and fishing, and subsidies to encourage crop rotation and fallowing, prevented the most predatory humans from INTENTIONALLY KILLING a population that was doing well in the situation. These laws encouraged the normal process of natural selection.
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