Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Bears, Bees, and Bureaucrats, oh my!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Somehow wildlife has a right to make you socialist!
“‘Just preservation’ stands out as the framework most aligned with the egalitarian worldview cultivated by left politics. This model emphasizes respect and dignity for other species and attention to the interrelationships between them, rather than the modes through which humans might profit from them. Just preservation advocates for ethical impartiality between species, such that we do not treat species on the basis of any positive preference or negative prejudice. It proposes a multispecies society with equitable distribution of resources and an acknowledgement of responsibilities to other species, as well as explicit consideration for the future of all species.
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“The principles of just preservation are compatible with socialist thought, and have been strengthened by scientific investigation, moral and philosophical inquiry, and a rational analysis of the failures of traditional conservation. In practice, just preservation would involve explicitly weighing the interests of current human, future human, and non-anthropocentric interests against one another when considering how to “use” nature. People representing these interests would make their case in front of a public trustee (plausibly a reformed version of our currently existing, hunter-dominated state wildlife and natural resource committees), and the trustee would make allocations based upon those resources.”
They just want humans to have less rights than some wild critter or plant.
“This is the thing with advocates of nature rights, animal rights, wild animal rights, plant rights, etc. They expect humans to be radically self-sacrificing in the name of the putative ‘rights’ of nonhumans, and even of geological features, while animals and the rest of nature have no reciprocal responsibilities — because that is beyond their ken! In other words, the everything-has-rights radicals admit the truth of human exceptionalism while denying that it exists.”
Worker bees of the world, unite?
“Under the new laws, stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats getting in the way of their survival. Humans can also file lawsuits on the insects’ behalf.”
And no, it’s not really about the critters.
“The nature rights movement is primarily anti-capitalist — despite the mess many socialist countries make of their environments.”
The only humans who are getting empowered are… tax collectors.
“Because, as of now, many countries are using their power through international bodies to impose their harmful, anti-energy climate agenda on countries who don’t share their ideological objectives.
“This problem has recently been highlighted by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) proposed global carbon tax on the shipping industry. Until just a few days ago the IMO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, was set to impose its ‘Net-Zero Framework,’ what is in effect a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from ships that exceed certain thresholds to be paid for by shipping companies. The IMO would have collected the revenue and then distributed it for such things as rewarding “low-emission ships” and for U.N. income redistribution schemes to ‘mitigate negative [climate] impacts on vulnerable States.’
“This tax is especially egregious because it is a violation of the sovereignty of the U.S. and other nations. A U.N. international body would be imposing a tax on Americans, something that appears to be a first. The tax, according to the State Department, could increase global shipping costs by 10 percent or more.”
TTFN.
