Protecting Biodiversity for the Future Bill 2014 (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't have enough time to make a statement that will do justice to this issue but I will try to at least do something tonight.

I think it is very important that we preserve as much of our biodiversity as possible within reasonable limits and to a large degree we have made a lot of mistakes with development and wasteful land development. Many years ago I watched the movie Medicine Man with Sean Connery and in that movie he finds a cure for cancer in an Amazonian beatle, but a fire breaks out and burns down the whole section of the rain forest. I think we see that story playing out far too often and it is not just cures for illnesses that we are losing, but key lynchpins in the food chain that could spell out starvation on a mass scale and not just for us but numerous other species. We cannot hope to change natural processes, but we can limit the negative impact of our actions through conservative and smarter development practices.

The other side of this that has to be considered though is the structure and the consequences of that structure in terms of the economy. In that sense I share some of Deus' concern but would say also that a large broad mandate might not be generally very effective with regards to the issue at hand or achieve enough results to justify the economic loss incurred.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Again, assuming negative economic impacts is not the right way up approach this. Keep in mind that the impacts of invasive species impacts the national economy by BILLIONS each year.

Like I said the lateness of the hour meant that I did not have time to produce a fully developed post. I have to work tomorrow and one of my anti-malware programs just trashed my browser history and the start menu.

I do agree, but we should still be careful not only for that reason but also to ensure we are achieving results with the actions we are taking.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So bore is a Polnut sock. That explains a few things.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Section 3? Do we not already have laws against such importation and if so, should they be repealed or altered?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE