Patagonia CEO: Im Not Going To Stand Back And Just Let Evil Win

[turbinetree]

Reprinted with permission from Shareblue.com

Continuing his obsession with trying to undo everything President Barack Obama accomplished while in office, Donald Trump on Monday moved to radically reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

In an anti-environmentalist maneuver that is overwhelmingly opposed by Native American tribal leaders in the region, Trump wants to reduce the size of the moment designation by nearly 90 percent.

Who’s happy about the radical shift? Businesses that want to use the protected land for profit by extracting oil and gas.

“The drillers, miners and frackers who were shut out by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s use of the Antiquities Act would have new leases on life,” CNN reports.

Trump’s unprecedented move to shrink a U.S. monument is certain to spark a protracted court case. Trump’s effort “could alter the course of American land conservation, possibly opening millions of protected public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities,” The New York Times reports.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/im-not-going-stand-back-just-let-evil-win-ceo-sue-trump-land-grab/

[marybourg]

1. Standing?

[Tikki]

2. Yvon is a true outdoor's man. No surprise he would join the fight...

He is, also, a great business man and makes an incredibly long lasting, quality product.

Tikki

[turbinetree]

3. Patagonia

A tableland region of South America in southern Argentina and Chile extending from the Río Colorado to the Straits of Magellan and from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. The study of its indigenous inhabitants, the Tehuelche, and its unusual wildlife have attracted many scientific expeditions, including that of Charles Darwin (1831-1836).


And that is the point scientific research, not some oil well sitting on some sacred land, and the decimation of a tourist trade to the region in Bears Ear.

That orange asshole, goes around and says make America great, with his side kicks, Hatch, Zinke and that worthless governor and legislature in Utah, they keep forgetting that Manifest Destiny is crime to the Indigenous People that were there first -------blighting the landscape does not make his sociopath rendition of america

[FSogol]

4. Chouinard will be part of a larger coalition, including the Navajo Nation, that vowed to challenge T

From the article:

“I think it’s a shame that only 4 percent of American lands are national parks. Costa Rica’s got 10 percent. Chile will now have way more parks than we have,” Chouinard says. “We need more, not less.”

Monuments are similar to U.S. national parks, which are created by acts of Congress, except that monuments are created by presidents via the Antiquities Act, a law that has been used by both parties for more than a century to protect millions of acres of federal land.

Trump now becomes the first president to basically try to un-protect monument land.

Evil indeed.

[AmericanActivist]

5. Thank you Patagonia nm