If it can be proven that species will go extinct from global warming then doesn't this law require that it be stopped? I'm no lawyer I was just reading about the law, could some one or some group sue the government to prevent global warming using this law?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act
2007-04-01
09:50:56
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Stan S
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Environment
The methods for protecting species from being threatened or driven extinct or there habitats being destroyed and recovering those species that are threatened or endangered and preserving and recovering their habitats are part of the law and if doing that requires the government pass laws to reduce global warming through reducing the emisions of carbon dioxide then it is required to do that. It reads that way to me anyway.
2007-04-01
15:55:04 ·
update #1
And it also has a provision for citizens to sue the government to actually determine if a particular species is threatened or endangered and to resolve the problems causing it and to recover species and there habitats. I think this arguement, with a bit of modification by greater minds then the one possesed by my lowly self it could be used to force the government to protect species stop global warming and to reverse the sixth extinction.
2007-04-01
15:58:38 ·
update #2
I believe this reinforces my case...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0329/p12s01-wogi.html
2007-04-03
10:28:45 ·
update #3