A university study “has revealed,” according to Fox News,
that “at least” 800 species of wildlife will be “adversely affected” by
“president Trump’s planned 2,000-mile border wall with Mexico.” Research
published by the Mexican National Autonomous University, “Mexico’s top
university,” according to the Fox News post, shows that “an impassable physical
barrier placed into ecosystems inhabited by jaguars, black bears, and bighorn
sheep will so disrupt patterns of migration as to cause a natural catastrophe.”
This is obvious hyperbole, much like the phrase, “Mexico’s top university.” Professor Gerardo Ceballos led the study and
purportedly told Fox News, “Wildlife has populated these regions for millions
of years, and has always had freedom of movement to hunt, reproduce and
migrate. To make these animals suffer as a result of man’s political agenda is
entirely immoral.”
Translation:
“Mexicans have populated these
regions for thousands of years, and have always had freedom of movement to hunt,
reproduce, migrate, and smuggle humans and drugs across the border with
impunity. Trump sucks.”
The
article goes on to state that 140 species that would be affected by Trump’s
border wall are in danger of extinction, “including the bald eagle. Grey wolf,
armadillo, and jaguar, a big cat of which remain only 10 in the highlands of
the Sonora Desert that straddle (sic) Arizona. Those animals whose range will
be halved by the border wall’s construction will be impeded in their ability to
reproduce with other members of their species, thereby creating a shallower
gene pool and heightening the chance of inbreeding.”
What a
load of rhetorical refuse.
First
off, the bald eagle- thankfully- is not
in danger of extinction, but reason apparently is. Someone needs to inform
“Mexico’s top university,” Fox News, or both, that bald eagles can fly, rendering a 15 or even
25-foot-tall wall spectacularly moot. And, if throughout the millennia, when
there was no wall and open borders beckoned from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf
of California, the jaguar population was reduced to 10 animals, the wall won’t be a factor in their continued
existence. How vast a track of land do 10 cats need to roam to reproduce? It
seems quite likely that halving their range might make them more likely to find
each other. Proximity is a key factor in reproduction- or so I’ve been told.
(Hell, most wives hate it when their husbands roam and would keep them confined
to the boudoir and the garage if they had their druthers. How different can
cats be)?
The
Great Wall of China is over half the length of the friggin’ equator, an average
of 25-feet-tall…and one of the most celebrated achievements in human history.
What the hell? Where’s the outcry from environmentalists, animal-lovers, and
top universities? Did China’s Great Wall cause wholesale extinctions and
scientists just keep forgetting to bring it up?
The
United States could build the wall, and leave a series of, say, 50-yard-wide
gaps in it, from one end to the other, in order to let animals pass through.
These relatively few “animal checkpoints” could easily be watched to prevent
illegals, drugs, and such from entering the country. In any case, the animals
will be fine. But the wall must be built.
Otherwise
many, many U.S. citizens are in danger of becoming extinct.
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