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About the Author
David Mattson worked for the grizzly study team for 2 decades. He retired from the US Geological Survey two years ago.
By design, institutional arrangements disenfranchise not only everyone living outside state boundaries, but also the many people residing within those boundaries who do not hunt or fish. The privileged few hunters in Yellowstone’s three-state region are almost wholly white men, comprising less than 1 percent of the American public currently enfranchised by federal management of Yellowstone’s grizzly bears. Most families flocking to our nation’s oldest park in hopes of glimpsing a wild grizzly bear will be unaware that, with removal of ESA protections, they have little or no say in the bear’s future.
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The usa is an essentially christian nation, as such it is guided by the judeo.christian ethic of dominion: Genesis 9:1-3 “The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.” With this mandate, animals have always been in trouble, wild horses are being rounded up… Read more »
The primary cultural and social force at work is extremist libertarianism – a quasi religious faith in “freemarket” capitalism, and the ethics that justify and uphold it. In the long era of capitalism/colonialism/imperialism religion is not the primary at work force . In fact in the west, religion was dethroned along with the ancien regime (the monarchy) by the bourgeois revolutions which ushered in the capitalist age, and the dictatorship of the bourgeois . Conversely, different “better” religion is not going to extricate us from the problem. Only the overthrow and removal of the class based system of capitalist exploitation… Read more »
Only the removal of class based religions, with dominionist hierarchies will end the problem of class exclusivity….