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Article: The embattled social utilities of the Endangered Species Act - a Noah presumption and caution against putting gasmasks on the canaries in the coalmine.(Symposium on Habitat Conservation Plans)
- Article from:
- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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The militant environmentalist movement in America today is a new homosocialism, communism. What these people are is against private property nights. They are trying to attack capitalism and corporate America in the form of going after timber companies. And they're trying to say that we must preserve these virgin trees because the spotted owl and the rat kangaroo and whatever five in them, and it's the only place they can five; the snail darter and whatever it is.(1)
I. Introduction
The Endangered Species Act (ESA)(2)--which always seems to be a lightning rod for politics, passions, and philosophizing--is once again poised at the brink of what could ...