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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jul 23

    Even many casual outdoors people have seen bald eagles, peregrine falcons, alligators, wolves, condors. Thank the Endangered Species Act, passed under Nixon, now threatened by the Trump adminisrtation.https://nyti.ms/2O7tt9m 

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      1. SlimPickens  😎 🇨🇦 😎 🇨🇦‏ @GaiaLovesMe Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @lamphieryeg

        Well if you include bats then it is tens of millions of slaughtered animals. No biggie. According to @ec_minister Climate Barbie they are just collateral damage on our smooth highway to a glorious future of unreliable, intermittent, animal slaughtering Renewable Energy. Truthpic.twitter.com/4C1KygtXys

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      1. Brad_Reloaded‏ @Brad_Reloaded Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        Thanks but I’ll wait to reserve my opinions on this from someone else other than opinion piece in the New York Times 🙄

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      1. Unbelievable Numbers‏ @satoshiksutra Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        Please. Even The Simpsons figured out how draconian ESA enforcement has gotten. It’s long overdue for reform.

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      1. michael jack‏ @msiravo3 Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        The endangered species act has been used by the Left to halt development that helps real people. Environmentalism has become a racket.

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      1. Bud Fugate‏ @BudFugate Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        As if this policy is going to be enacted and then suddenly people will start hinting bald eagles.

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      2. A Char‏ @CaptChar Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        You ever have the EPA threaten to shut down a family member’s farm because an owl randomly appeared on it?

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      3. A Char‏ @CaptChar Jul 23
        Replying to @CaptChar @sapinker @CHSommers

        Here’s something you find in reporting. Because of the draconian measures of the Endangered Species Act, farmers shoot those birds on sight and bury them to protect their livelihood.

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      1. leashyourkids‏ @leashyourkids Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        Best not to draw ultimate understanding from a NYT opinion piece. Talk to people who live in these areas - especially hunters as they are the best conservationists. They can tell you dozens of stories where ESA is counterproductive and overreaching.

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      1. Jay Besser‏ @bessertkj Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        Peregrine falcons are a bad example. They followed pigeons into cities, and are now thriving. They adapted to their environment. The others you may have a case for.

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      1. Seniorpede‏ @seniorpede Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        Every government agency, given time and relatively unfettered authority to expand, will be guilty of overreach that is worth examining and correcting. This is just standard fear mongering that somehow the Trump admin wants all bald eagles wiped out.

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      1. smm  ❌‏ @fab_NHC Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @CHSommers

        Yeah cuz that's true 😳can't you people quit with the lying about every single thing every single time

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      1. Andrew James‏ @MaxPuckerFactor Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        I grew up never seeing a bird of prey. Not once until after those regulations went active. They work.

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      1.  🌸 Laci Liu  🌸‏ @LaciLou77 Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker @JeffreyGuterman

        This makes me physically sick.

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      2. Varga‏ @TravisVarga Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        Oy. As much as anyone likes animals, you can’t reasonably be for animal rights. It’s wrong for government, the institution that is supposed to protect us from violence from others, to use violence, every law is enforced with violence, in the name of animals.

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      3. Andrew James‏ @MaxPuckerFactor Jul 23
        Replying to @TravisVarga @sapinker

        Another weak minded Libertarian. This is simply not in any way true. Laws are enforced by a sense of shared duty to society and a responsibility to it. What the hell, where the hell does Animal rights come into this? That’s an entirely different concept out of the blue.

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      4. Varga‏ @TravisVarga Jul 23
        Replying to @MaxPuckerFactor @sapinker

        Not a libertarian. Ad hominems reveal more about their users. Laws are enforced through force. Man is an end in himself, he has the right to his own life, his own pursuit of happiness, and the only responsibility is to respect that other men are the same.

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      2. Stephen Baillargeon‏ @sbb71791 Jul 23
        Replying to @sapinker

        How can we help?

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      3. Adam Cox‏ @AdamCox11 Jul 23
        Replying to @sbb71791 @sapinker

        Demand other people's money be used on things you personally like. It's the only way to solve any issues at all. Other people have to to fund it.

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      4. Stephen Baillargeon‏ @sbb71791 Jul 23
        Replying to @AdamCox11 @sapinker

        There are a lot of problems where voluntary giving doesn't seem to solve enough.

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      5. Adam Cox‏ @AdamCox11 Jul 23
        Replying to @sbb71791 @sapinker

        I agree. That's why I rob people when I don't have money for the stuff I want.

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      6. Stephen Baillargeon‏ @sbb71791 Jul 23
        Replying to @AdamCox11 @sapinker

        I think it can be genuinely difficult to distinguish between wants and needs. I've heard from biology professors that biodiversity keeps the world habitable, but I couldn't argue for or against it.

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      7. Adam Cox‏ @AdamCox11 Jul 23
        Replying to @sbb71791 @sapinker

        Do biology professors also claim theft solves biodiversity? Or is that just a baseless assumption?

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      8. Stephen Baillargeon‏ @sbb71791 Jul 23
        Replying to @AdamCox11 @sapinker

        Biology professors aren't usually experts in public policy, but the above article may provide a little more information. If this kind of theft were likely to work, do you think it would be justified by increasing the chance of keeping the world habitable?

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