WTF?

[denny]

Giving Americans access to [kill, capture and import] endangered animals, officials said, would feed the gigantic U.S. demand for live animals, skins, parts and trophies, and generate profits that would allow poor nations to pay for conservation of the remaining animals and their habitat.

Update: I should mention that there's a new community which will be covering some of the political stuff that tends to catch my eye... it's called globaldefence and covers any kind of dubious political interactions between countries, as well as things that affect the whole planet.

Comments

Re: Erk

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, came looking for you on IM to see if it fitted the brief. Is that community going to cover basically any of the political/social commentary stuff that I generally post? I got the feeling you were aiming broad for now...

Re: Erk

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, haven't got IM at work.

globaldefence basically covers anything to do with a country's relationships with other countries or the global environment. Since this story covers the US treating Africa (etc) as a sports shooting gallery, it fits my definitions.

Re: Erk

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. I didn't manage to get that concise a definition of the goals from your original post(s) on the subject, although possibly because I was rushing through them rather than any weakness in their phrasing.

I've now cross-posted, it as you've probably already noticed.