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mysteryowl

(7,396 posts) Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:01 AM Dec 2018

'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall

More than 200 species make their homes at America’s most diverse sanctuary, but construction through the reserve could begin in February.

Today the most diverse butterfly sanctuary in the country, and other protected areas in the lower Rio Grande Valley along the US-Mexico border, are under threat. Last week, the US supreme court issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration to waive 28 federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act, and begin construction on 33 new miles of border wall in the heart of the valley – and right through the butterfly center.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/butterfly-sanctuary-border-wall-mission-texas

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'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall (Original Post) mysteryowl Dec 2018 OP

What wall? Is Mexico paying for it? Cha Dec 2018 #1

The article says in the Rio Grande Valley construction begins in February mysteryowl Dec 2018 #2

Well, I hope Cha Dec 2018 #3

Thankfully, environmental groups are actively bringing awareness to this. mysteryowl Dec 2018 #4

The juggernaut of death rumbles on. klook Dec 2018 #5

short-term money Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #6

This is a telling picture mysteryowl Dec 2018 #7

This had better not happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bluestarone Dec 2018 #8

This article is when I went into an IMPEACH trump fury and wrote a thread mysteryowl Dec 2018 #9

Like you i really really really hope the environmentalists bluestarone Dec 2018 #10

I am not proud of it, but... mysteryowl Dec 2018 #11

Cha

(297,655 posts)

1. What wall? Is Mexico paying for it?

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:02 AM

Dec 2018

How is the traitor in the wh getting the money for the wall?

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)

2. The article says in the Rio Grande Valley construction begins in February

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:04 AM

Dec 2018

Cha

(297,655 posts)

3. Well, I hope

Reply to mysteryowl (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:07 AM

Dec 2018

something comes out of the blue and it ends up Not happening.

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)

4. Thankfully, environmental groups are actively bringing awareness to this.

Reply to Cha (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:10 AM

Dec 2018

I am so glad people are there doing this work.

klook

(12,165 posts)

5. The juggernaut of death rumbles on.

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:28 AM

Dec 2018

Why do they love cruelty and destruction so much?

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,414 posts)

6. short-term money

Reply to klook (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 02:33 AM

Dec 2018

It's the reason mountains are destroyed to get at coal, even though the timber, waterways, and other resources destroyed in the process could be valuable forever.

In this particular case, though, I think it's just cruelty for the sake of cruelty, a.k.a. evil.

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)

7. This is a telling picture

Reply to klook (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 07:42 PM

Dec 2018

bluestarone

(17,030 posts)

8. This had better not happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 07:44 PM

Dec 2018

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)

9. This article is when I went into an IMPEACH trump fury and wrote a thread

Reply to bluestarone (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 07:58 PM

Dec 2018

about it yesterday. Duers were trying to tell me all the "logical" ways of looking at impeachment, but in my fury I could not.

He is so evil and has zero connection to "life", it matters not. I am very glad to know there are environmentalists and other groups working on this. I hope they succeed.

bluestarone

(17,030 posts)

10. Like you i really really really hope the environmentalists

Reply to mysteryowl (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 08:04 PM

Dec 2018

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As i've said before, EVERYDAY he makes me HATE him more!!!!!!!!!

mysteryowl

(7,396 posts)

11. I am not proud of it, but...

Reply to bluestarone (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 08:09 PM

Dec 2018

I find it satisfying that he will be taunted by lawsuits and criminal legal issues the rest of his life.

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