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(Mother Jones)   Thanks, US Senate, for not joining the rest of the civilized world and the new biodiversity pact   (motherjones.com) divider line
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Jeebus Saves
2022-12-21 10:38:01 AM  
There's a new biodiversity pact?  The one the article is talking about is 30 years old.
 
alechemist [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 11:12:47 AM  
We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 12:15:23 PM  

alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either


UNCLOS says hi
 
alechemist [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:22:33 PM  

johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia


thanks I'll add it to the list.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:30:09 PM  

alechemist: johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia

thanks I'll add it to the list.


I'm sure there's more
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:35:54 PM  
The Senate: F*ck the environment!
 
Peter von Nostrand
2022-12-21 1:38:01 PM  

Walker: The Senate: F*ck the environment!


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Subtonic
2022-12-21 1:38:52 PM  
I'm sure there's a reasonable and prudent explanation for this. And if not, just how many different owl species do we really need? I can't fill my gas tank with owls.
 
red230
2022-12-21 1:38:56 PM  
We have the best government that the rich corporations can buy.
 
red230
2022-12-21 1:39:57 PM  

Subtonic: I'm sure there's a reasonable and prudent explanation for this. And if not, just how many different owl species do we really need? I can't fill my gas tank with owls.


US Senate has a new job.
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whidbey
2022-12-21 1:40:49 PM  
THANKS DEMS
 
Puglio
2022-12-21 1:41:13 PM  
Biodiversity sounds too much like diversity, which we know is a woke liberal plot.
 
Veloram
2022-12-21 1:41:46 PM  

Walker: The Senate: F*ck the environment!


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jumac
2022-12-21 1:42:07 PM  

johnny_vegas: alechemist: johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia

thanks I'll add it to the list.

I'm sure there's more


If I am not thinking wrong are there not parts of the Geneva convention treaty and its add on that the USA won't sign and follow?
 
fourthsword
2022-12-21 1:42:30 PM  
Anything with the word diversity in it is an instant deal-breaker.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-21 1:42:41 PM  

Subtonic: I'm sure there's a reasonable and prudent explanation for this. And if not, just how many different owl species do we really need? I can't fill my gas tank with owls.


Have you tried? I'm sure with a will and a good blender you could do it.
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:42:48 PM  
environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.
 
Zombie DJ
2022-12-21 1:44:05 PM  
I'm $ure there mu$t be rea$on for $enators that $aid "No" to thi$
 
Puglio
2022-12-21 1:44:31 PM  

tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.


You'd think the gun wing of the party would be environmentalist, seeing as how there's no hunting without wilderness.

But, like the rest of the party, they are stupid.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-12-21 1:45:00 PM  
Subtonic:I can't fill my gas tank with owls.

That's quitter talk!  Put 'em in the blender they'll go in, you just need to make a little effort
 
Isitoveryet
2022-12-21 1:45:47 PM  
anything that might impede the ability or rate at which the rich people get richer is an automatic no go.
 
Night Train to Wakanda
2022-12-21 1:46:05 PM  

tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.


If there is one thing the past ten or twenty years have taught me, it's that everything is a cultural war. And the politics you follow are cultural, worthy of death, unless you're on the losing side. Then it's someone else's fault for making you try to overthrow the government.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:46:25 PM  

jumac: johnny_vegas: alechemist: johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia

thanks I'll add it to the list.

I'm sure there's more

If I am not thinking wrong are there not parts of the Geneva convention treaty and its add on that the USA won't sign and follow?


https://www.cfr.org/blog/international-treaties-united-states-refuses-play-ball?amp

Though regarding UNCLOS at least, the US did not sign/ratify but does follow it.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-12-21 1:48:04 PM  

Puglio: tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.

You'd think the gun wing of the party would be environmentalist, seeing as how there's no hunting without wilderness.

But, like the rest of the party, they are stupid.


The people in charge of the right wing don't actually GAF - they just like it as a performative base juicer than involves killing shiat as a lagniappe.  It isn't mandatory*

/*:until they formally legalize <slur of the week> hunting that is
//but hey you can do that in an urban environment, right?
///natural lib hunting ground
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-12-21 1:48:38 PM  

Bootleg: Subtonic: I'm sure there's a reasonable and prudent explanation for this. And if not, just how many different owl species do we really need? I can't fill my gas tank with owls.

Have you tried? I'm sure with a will and a good blender you could do it.


<shakes tiny fist>
 
Veloram
2022-12-21 1:49:30 PM  

Puglio: tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.

You'd think the gun wing of the party would be environmentalist, seeing as how there's no hunting without wilderness.

But, like the rest of the party, they are stupid.


You say that like its deer they want to hunt, and not liberals.
 
Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 1:49:46 PM  
Senators seem powerful, but certain lobbies like, say, agribusiness make them piss themselves.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-21 1:50:05 PM  

Puglio: tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.

You'd think the gun wing of the party would be environmentalist, seeing as how there's no hunting without wilderness.

But, like the rest of the party, they are stupid.


While a lot of hunters have guns, most of the gun wing are not hunters. Well, not hunters of animals.
 
Bazolar
2022-12-21 1:50:11 PM  
Pretty much anything good that the US doesn't do can be summed up as "We have a Republican problem in this country".
 
tricycleracer
2022-12-21 1:50:40 PM  
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Mrtraveler01
2022-12-21 1:52:34 PM  
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Murkanen
2022-12-21 1:54:18 PM  

jumac: johnny_vegas: alechemist: johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia

thanks I'll add it to the list.

I'm sure there's more

If I am not thinking wrong are there not parts of the Geneva convention treaty and its add on that the USA won't sign and follow?


Yes, specifically on what can be used to murder and poison a country for generations after the war is over.

Also several provisions on human rights.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2022-12-21 1:55:13 PM  

Bazolar: Pretty much anything good that the US doesn't do can be summed up as "We have a Republican conservative problem in this country".


FTFY.

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The six "yea" votes:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Booker (D-NJ)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Sanders (I-VT)
Warren (D-MA)

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00153.htm

The Democrats that voted "Nay" in the railway strikebreaking bill:

Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Merkley (D-OR)
Sanders (I-VT)
Warren (D-MA)

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00372.htm

Sinema and Manchin are merely the two most *openly* obstructive people in their caucus.
 
DoganSquirrelSlayer
2022-12-21 1:55:19 PM  
Is there any treaty/agreement for general "good of mankind" that the US either refused outright, got special riders, or waited several decades until they joined the rest of the world?

(Chemical warfare under the Geneva Protocol, I'm looking at you as the poster child for all 3.)
 
Murkanen
2022-12-21 1:57:08 PM  

DoganSquirrelSlayer: Is there any treaty/agreement for general "good of mankind" that the US either refused outright, got special riders, or waited several decades until they joined the rest of the world?

(Chemical warfare under the Geneva Protocol, I'm looking at you as the poster child for all 3.)


Did you mean to ask if there's any that the US has signed on to?  Because the thread is rife with examples of ones the US has refused already.
 
DoganSquirrelSlayer
2022-12-21 1:57:17 PM  
hasn't* (obviously)
Currrrssee yooouu double negative that I edited to a single negative!
 
Murkanen
2022-12-21 1:58:35 PM  

DoganSquirrelSlayer: hasn't* (obviously)
Currrrssee yooouu double negative that I edited to a single negative!


That answers my question.
 
Bennie Crabtree
2022-12-21 2:04:53 PM  
Ah, so the USA chose to support Alberta and subvert Canada's federal government. Canada was the host for the treaty singing after all. Bastards. Fark you, Democratic Party!
 
willabr
2022-12-21 2:09:37 PM  
Foreign entanglements and all that....
 
Any Pie Left
2022-12-21 2:11:07 PM  
Some gun owning hunters can understand that protecting nature is in their own interests.

Rich farks who already own private hunting reserves don't give a Fark about other hunters.

And I think there's a lot of gun nuts who pretend they hunt but really  just go play at the range mostly, doing performative macho shiat to impress other totally not secretly gay fellas.
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 2:20:14 PM  

Any Pie Left: Some gun owning hunters can understand that protecting nature is in their own interests.

Rich farks who already own private hunting reserves don't give a Fark about other hunters.

And I think there's a lot of gun nuts who pretend they hunt but really  just go play at the range mostly, doing performative macho shiat to impress other totally not secretly gay fellas.



Did you have to end with a gay joke?
 
hank byron
2022-12-21 2:21:50 PM  
The US Congress brought to by Monsanto and a few other corporate giants.
 
adamatari
2022-12-21 2:24:19 PM  

tembaarmswide: environmentalism doesn't have to be political but, the GOP insists on it.


Unfortunately, environmentalism DOES have to be political. It is political by nature because it states the interests of nature and non-human living things as being sometimes more important than human desires. It is political because it is against the whole edifice of exploitation that makes up the bulk of industrial society.

You can't save the environment "unpolitically" because to save the environment requires going up against entrenched interests and it requires opposing certain practices (bottom trawling for example) and sometimes entire industries (fossil fuels).
 
tembaarmswide [TotalFark]
2022-12-21 2:25:13 PM  

hank byron: The US Congress brought to by Monsanto and a few other corporate giants.


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Halfabee64
2022-12-21 2:27:02 PM  
GEORGE SOROS!  

AGENDA 21! 

YOU CAN'T TELL US WHAT TO DO! 

WE'LL TURN THIS PLANET INTO A BARREN CINDER BEFORE WE SURRENDER OUR AUTONOMY TO THE LIBERAL EU!
 
BlazeTrailer
2022-12-21 2:31:29 PM  

Subtonic: I'm sure there's a reasonable and prudent explanation for this. And if not, just how many different owl species do we really need? I can't fill my gas tank with owls.


I suspect you haven't tried hard enough
 
gameshowhost [OhFark]
2022-12-21 2:39:32 PM  

johnny_vegas: jumac: johnny_vegas: alechemist: johnny_vegas: alechemist: We didn't sign the Ottawa treaty or the international  court treaty either

UNCLOS says hia

thanks I'll add it to the list.

I'm sure there's more

If I am not thinking wrong are there not parts of the Geneva convention treaty and its add on that the USA won't sign and follow?

https://www.cfr.org/blog/international-treaties-united-states-refuses-play-ball?amp

Though regarding UNCLOS at least, the US did not sign/ratify but does follow it.


Gentlemen's Agreements are well known for their eternal bindingness.
 
Any Pie Left
2022-12-21 2:41:03 PM  
Wasn't a gay joke but a joke about homophobic guys that are acting out macho in front of each other to cover for something they don't want to admit to themselves. But if you took offense I apologize for the joke.
 
whidbey
2022-12-21 2:49:03 PM  

Bazolar: Pretty much anything good that the US doesn't do can be summed up as "We have a Republican problem in this country".


Some apparently have a big problem with this info.
 
GoldSpider
2022-12-21 2:50:10 PM  

Jeebus Saves: There's a new biodiversity pact?  The one the article is talking about is 30 years old.


Who has time for all those words??  I want to be ANGRY!!
 
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