It is 2019 and it has never…

It is 2019 and it has never been so clear at any other point throughout history that humans are failing the planet and the multitude varieties of life that call our Earth home. Unless it is abundantly clear that the sole purpose of this review is to strengthen legislation to limit human activity and direct more efforts towards protecting species at risk, then The Endangered Species Act must be left alone. I am dubious that the current government's intentions are pro-environmentalism in nature, despite the desperate attempt to make it sound just so. The discussion paper published by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks makes that quite clear when they state that one of the challenges of the current legislation they are concerned with is how it has created, "barriers to economic development". Economic development should never be prioritized over the health of our environment and the fragile ecosystems that we all depend on. The economic development campaigners, many of whom are politicians without a scientific background, appear unable to see the forest for the trees. What will economic development matter when food chains start to collapse and our lives all become at risk due to our inaction over environmental issues such as the protection of endangered species?

Do more to protect animals, do more to protect the environment, think long term about sustainability, and make sure you're on the right side of history, otherwise there will be no history at all.