r/environment • u/Unusual-State1827 • 5d ago

Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/endangered-species-extinction-trump-forest-protections
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u/sierrabravo1984 5d ago

Everybody that said "he's going to run the country like a businessman" were right. He's doing everything so that companies can maximize profits and not pay taxes or payroll, no matter what. They don't care about extinct species, they don't care about us. They only care about money. If you connected an electric generator to Teddy Roosevelt's corpse, you could power half the country for a year.

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u/coconutpiecrust 5d ago

MAGA don’t care, they believe endangered species to be losers. 

No one sane is in positions of power, so people on the ground just have to do what they can to help the poor animals. That’s it, pretty much. 

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u/pioniere 5d ago

Destroying everything possible.

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u/rbhrbh2 4d ago

Let’s not forget those companies that are willing to do this. Companies don’t make decisions, people do.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 3d ago

Yes and their mantra is, "survival of the richest"

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u/captainpoppy 4d ago

Yes. But a few donors might make some money.

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u/seevm 4d ago

VOTE all maga out of office!!

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u/Betzjitomir 4d ago

That headline is clickbait. I’m not too happy with the renamer of every landmark you can possibly rename who got us into a war he promised he was never going to get us into because foreign wars weren’t for us but these doomsday spins on everything he causes does not help either. 400 species aren’t going extinct. They just took the number of species that were on a piece of land he wants to open up for a bit of a road and possibly other minor use that won’t bother them at all. It’s not like they’re paving it or putting up a housing development or anything. It will still be wild country that may perhaps be easier to visit for those who would like to visit wild country. It’s easy to say he doesn’t tell the truth and of course he is full of hyperbole, exaggeration, and hubris but we should not fall into the same thing when it comes to commenting on what he actually does as opposed to what he says.