The abandonment of…

The abandonment of environmental procedures reflected in these changes worries me greatly. The idea of allowing a species to die off in one area simply because you can find an analogous population elsewhere is ridiculous as animals adapt individual traits and speciate locally to become unique. Darwin's original works proved this centuries ago and as such each population should be considered a unique subset unless proven otherwise with proper scientific rigour.
The proposal to Purchase the right to destroy habitat and not provide a suitable rebuilding is also a crime against our responsibility to protect our environment. Greed and profit should not be the soul driving force of an economy as we are envied world wide for our continued possession of wild spaces which generate tourist income and buffers against environmental change. While the government struggles to admit that climate change is occurring the protections offered by green space and wetlands offset the dismal efforts of the current administration to hide from the future by burring their heads in how they used to be able to pollute and destroy without concern for the damage they did.
I hope these thoughts and not the large monies of the corporations guide the reform of this document even as I know that they will have little impact on the amoral greed that is directing the current regime.