[ExI] homo sapiens as endangered species

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Tue May 31 15:02:53 UTC 2011


If it gets done at all, I expect it will be in some country besides the US.

Keith

2011/5/30 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> In 1973 the US passed a law that protects endangered species, but in
> retrospect it may have been the biggest victory for the oil companies.
> Reasoning: every alternative energy source that I know of could be slowed to
> a stop by various camps of greens, some perhaps employed by oil companies.
> If for instance, we figure out a way cheap means of launching Keith’s space
> based solar, we still need an area of ground to set up a rectenna farm.  Any
> yahoo could claim that is the breeding grounds of the rare Snarkleberry’s
> snivelfly, which no one has ever seen, proving its rarity.  By the ESA, that
> would meet the definition of a species, and so off we go to find a different
> place, which is in turn stopped by a different endangered species.
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> It looks to me like the deck is stacked in favor of the NIMBYs and some
> subset of the greens, because it is a lot easier to stop a project than it
> is to start one.
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