Today in Townhall Magazine, Katie Keiffer writes an article about how entrepreneurship is much better at saving endangered species and dealing with environmental issues than environmentalists are as well as government agencies. She cites for example how mathematical modelling, because of it’s unreliability, is causing more harm to not only animals but the environment and jobs.

Last month, the journal Nature published a study showing that mathematical models for determining species extinction are unreliable and may be leading us to overestimate extinction probabilities by up to 160 percent. The study’s authors encourage the scientific community to not become complacent, but, rather, adopt better mathematical models for forecasting extinction rates.

Despite this research, environmentalists are pushing forward radical measures that could hurt animals and humans in one fell sweep. Contrastingly, entrepreneurs are advancing proposals that could preserve animals while creating jobs for humans.

I fully agree with Ms. Kieffer’s assessment of the ills cast upon animals, our environment and human jobs but her examination into what motivates these environmentalists comes up short. The author references three cases as examples but foists blame on the environmentalists for having “anti-business agendas”. That they do, but their agendas reach far deeper than simply anti-business.

Environmentalism and manipulation and abuse of the Endangered Species Act, not only are anti-business but together or separately, they are the most destructive implement to American liberty that has ever existed. The agenda of these people is not to stop business only, it’s to stop liberty, to end property ownership, to end hunting, fishing, trapping, to end a person’s right to own land and use it to pursue life, liberty and happiness.

It would be helpful if writers who have the larger audiences would take that extra step to fully grasp the situation that exists in order that more people can fully understand that environmentalism is far bigger than stealing a person’s job from them.

Tom Remington

Related Posts