The Best of Reason: The Endangered Species Act at 50

Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?

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The Best of Reason: The Endangered Species Act at 50

This week's featured article is "The Endangered Species Act at 50" by Tate Watkins.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?

Because we agreed to disagree, and left them all on there.

[mad.casual]

I’m not a biologist, but it seems like rigorous enforcement of abstract social constructs has prevented invasive species from completely wiping these native minority populations out. Repealing The Jones Act to allow foreign ships to move more freely between American ports should help.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

And all those structural problems and corruption detailed by David Simon's excellent writing in The Wire (which in Season five were blamed on non-existent Republicans)? 180 degree reversal with the elimination of the Jones Act.

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[Chumby]

So few species have been taken off the list because most of the ones present aren’t that tasty. The few species that have gone extinct in the past fifty years all were delicious.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My favorite animal is Steak.

[Chumby]

People Eating Tasty Animals (PETA) may have a beef with that.

[mavphp]

Why are endangered species playing hard to get off the list? Well, we all shook hands on agreeing to disagree, and now they're enjoying their extended stay!
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[Public Entelectual]

Population density drives extinction by reducing the extent of the natural habitats of endangered species.

Free economies tolerate immigration and population growth far better than plants and animals.

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[Edmund Burke's Hastings spy]

iT TOOK the suffering of millions of children to reverse Silent Spring.
"The US National Academy of Sciences estimated DDT had saved 500 million lives from malaria by 1970. In India, effective spraying had virtually eliminated the disease by the 1960s, so much so that the mosquito nets which were ubiquitous in my childhood had disappeared"

"Then in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmental scare promoted by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, US President Richard Nixon’s Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus banned DDT — against all the expert advice he had been given. Foreign aid agencies and various UN organisations began to take a jaundiced view of DDT, and the use of DDT declined. Not surprisingly, the mosquitoes hit back and endemic malaria returned to India. By 1997, UNDP’s Human Development Report 2000 estimated there were about 2.6 million malaria cases.