| Who'd a thunk that the Legislature would be a repository of deep scientfic illiteracy. If the bill is signed into law, it would change the way DNR manages land. It takes away the conservation of biological diversity from the DNR’s duties. It requires the DNR to balance management with economic values. And it strikes language from an existing act that states that most losses of biological diversity are the result of human activity.
The bill would make it illegal for the DNR to set aside land for the purpose of promoting biodiversity. There are times when I'm simply at a loss for words trying to explain how these people think the world operates versus how it actually does. The bill also strikes language from state policy that identifies human activity as the chief reason for loss of biodiversity. What alternative explanation do any of these people have? Magic habitat-stealing fairies, probably. You can relate this to our system of education, by the way. The sort of thinking exhibited in this legislation speaks to the kind of person who, when attending high school and even college, complained about having to take science courses on the grounds that he'd never use it in real life. |
