Priorities
Someone needs to get their priorities in order. From the Houston, TX
CBS affiliate:
Endangered Eyeless Spider Indefinitely Delays $15M Texas Highway Project
An endangered eyeless spider is holding up a $15 million Texas highway project.
Construction of the highway underpass project on Texas 151 was indefinitely delayed after a biologist consultant with the Texas Department of Transportation discovered the Braken Bat Cave meshweaver, according to San Antonio Express-News.
The Express-News reports the spider, which is about the size of a dime, was added to the endangered species list 12 years ago.
This is on the par with the Delta Smelt which is causing severe irrigation problems for the central valley California farmers. An insignificant species should not be made the poster child for the environmental movements Malthusian attempt at limiting human productivity. The more we grow, the more we build, the healthier everyone will be. Do we really want to go back to a life of hardship and grinding poverty and a painful death at 40 years old?
The rising tide floats all boats.
We are discovering new species all the time and other species are going extinct every day from natural causes -- we do not have to play God and micromanage this planet.
Posted by DaveH at September 12, 2012 6:35 PM