Wednesday, March 10, 2010
And this they call "Sustainable"
humans in captivity—small steps
Remember those sustainable high-rises? Those 800sf apartments with a workplace downstairs and a smart train in walking distance? Yeah. Here’s another step towards herding us all in there.
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force* still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
...Council on Environmental Quality *...
...WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper. ["Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” *PDF]
...some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with “facts,” in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.
Typical tactic. Remember the “take the lead out of hunting” dealio recently, based on the claim that condors are eating the lead left in the wild and dying?
[Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano* and board member of Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) *] fears that “what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.
“Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water."
uhm… Yup.
”...unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.
If ya can’t fish and ya can’t hunt… If ya can’t own private property nor set foot on national park/federal property… Well ain’t that the very definition of dependent?
It’s a series of small steps—lots of ‘em.
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