"We pretend that anything we do not understand—anything that cannot be measured, quantified, and controlled—does not exist," writes the environmentalist and author Derrick Jensen. "We pretend that animals are resources to be conserved or consumed, when, in reality, they have purposes entirely independent of us."
It's this culture's belief that "animals are resources to be conserved or consumed." It comes as no surprise to learn that Trump's Interior Department is looking to send thousands of wild horses to Russia.
"A nonprofit advocating for wild horses, one of the groups opposing a massive proposed document purge at Trump’s Interior Department, said record requests helped the nonprofit learn about a plan to send thousands of wild horses to a tiger refuge in Russia," writes DCReport.
The man who heads Trump's Interior Department Ryan Zinke, wanted to "destroy records such as proposals to help endangered species recover and proposals for protecting where the animals live."
The proposed document purge also included records about endangered species, oil and gas leases, timber sales, dams and land purchases.
DCReport on how Ryan Zinke wants to treat endangered species:
Zinke is working to change how the Endangered Species Act is enforced. Zinke wants to make it easier to remove protectionfor a species and have less protection for threatened species. He recently hired Robert Gordon, the author of a reportclaiming the Endangered Species Act has cost our country hundreds of billions of dollars, as the deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Interior Department.
As noted by DCReport, the idea to relocate wild horses to Russia was first discovered back in 2011, in which the Bureau of Land Management under President Obama, "considered shipping wild horses to a sanctuary in Siberia where they could be killed and eaten by leopards and tigers."
"It is wrong to make-believe that people are nothing more than 'Human Resources' to be efficiently utilized, when they too have independent existences and preferences," writes Derrick Jensen.
"And it is wrong to make-believe that animals are not sentient, that they do not form social communities in which members nurture, love, sustain, and grieve for each other, that they do not manifest ethical behavior."
In other words, don't send our wild horses to a place to just be eaten by leopards and tigers. And that animals listed as "endangered species," are on that list for a reason.
The only thing the Trump administration wants to "conserve," is the profits of CEO's who will destroy the natural world, until their is nothing left....
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