WE'RE REOPENING THE WRONG THINGS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Trump has just reopened 5000 square miles of ocean habitat to fishing, and legalized killing bear moms and bear cubs in Alaska. Jim Adams, of the National Parks Regional Conservative Association joins Thom with some deep background on the story.
New Zealand is almost ready to declare themselves virus-free. Why didn't the United States do the same kind of aggressive testing and contact tracing they did? Has our government decided to go for 'herd immunity' even though so far only 3 or 4 percent of the population of the United States has had the disease? Is a second wave very likely?
Plus Thom reads from 'A Deep History of Ourselves' by Joseph LeDoux, and 'Last Hours of Humanity- Warming the World to Extinction' by Thom Hartmann.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:20.0 | So Donald Trump has just by executive order put hundreds of species at risk of extinction |
| 0:26.3 | ocean-based species. He's opened 5,000 square miles at the Atlantic Ocean that had been protected habitats to commercial fishing. |
| 0:36.1 | Jake Johnson writing about this over at common dreams.org, ancient and slow growing deep sea corals, |
| 0:41.6 | endangered large whales and sea turtles, fish, |
| 0:45.0 | birds, sharks, dolphins. |
| 0:46.5 | We'll pay the price for this in a move that an environmental |
| 0:49.5 | as Warren could further imperil hundreds of endangered species just for the sake of profit. |
| 0:56.7 | Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation rolling back in Obama-era order and opened |
| 1:01.8 | nearly 5,000 square miles off the coast of New England to |
| 1:04.6 | commercial fishing. His Interior Secretary, former mining and oil |
| 1:09.4 | lobbyist David Bernhardt, said quote, I love it. |
| 1:14.8 | We're effectively taking down a no fishing sign |
| 1:17.3 | in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1:18.6 | The minute you sign it will begin planning. |
| 1:21.9 | And he did sign it, yeah Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's |
| 1:26.8 | billionaire buddies are just licking their chops. Oh boy, oh boy, you know |
| 1:31.6 | destroy the planet and make more money. |
| 1:35.0 | This is all interrelated. |
| 1:37.0 | This disrespect for some of humans, placing some humans above other humans, this disrespect for our environment, |
| 1:45.8 | disrespect for dissent, you know, the ideals of democracy, and at all these |
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