So many dolts, so little time

 Every now and then (all the time, my wife says) I come across a new low. The other day, it was a bumper sticker reading "So Many Species, So Little Time." It was mated with a Trump 2020 sticker. Of course. (You were expecting maybe "Support Breast Cancer Awareness"?)
 I don't suppose that would be overly popular in the Bahamas these days, but, hey, MAGA.
 In the normal course of events, something new would come along. I didn't expect it to be that bumper sticker turning  into public policy. But, thanks the the Environmental Protection Agency, it is due to become  policy next year. (Also here.)


 The deal is, if you are going to push stinkin' science at the swamp dwellers who now run the government on an acting basis, you have to give them all the raw data, including confidential medical records, used by scientists to reach their recommendation. This is supposed to "ensure that the science supporting agency decisions is transparent and available for evaluation by the public and stakeholders.” We've seen how "stakeholders" handle science when they are an extractive industry and it is evidence that they are doing a lot of damage.
 One more thing: The rule will be retroactive. They can go all the way back to Gifford Pinchot and start throwing out rules for "failure to comply."
 And they will.
 Pope Francis said this, about part of that:
 

Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever. The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity. Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right. -- Laudato Si', § 33

But we'll wipe out as many as we can in the time we have.