I wonder if someone put $1 billion on whether Rice's whale will go extinct or not in the run-up to that decision.

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For context, Washington Postand Paul Krugmaninterviewed by Slate.

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Physical_Wallaby9368@reddit

honestly the trump administration calling this the god squad is wild. they literally just voted to let oil companies drill in the only place rice's whales live. fifty whales left and they just said screw the endangered species act. it's not even a debate, it's a foregone conclusion because the committee is packed with people who work for the industry.

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rentedlife@reddit

Money, money - that’s all they see. It’s insane and it’s abhorrent. I am so worried about the future of this earth.

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WhippiesWhippies@reddit

Fuck Trump and anyone who supports him.

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TurbulentCaregiver23@reddit

This is absolutely absurd. Are we now faced with a government who’s going to decide what species will live and die and we as citizens of the United States and the world cannot do anything about it! Really? I can’t believe as an American and a United States citizens that I am hearing this. Is this really for real? Do we not realize that as we kill more and more species on this earth that are very own existence becomes threatened. So many species have already died due to our over population and greed. Are we so overloaded with our own self importance that we cannot see what is happening. If we can’t take care of this earth, I don’t think we should be fooled into thinking we can take care of our ourselves. Are we eventually only to be left with robots and AI technical machines to ‘feed’ our humanity?? How long will it be before we become machine like and destroy that humanity?

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