I can’t tell you how much this vexes my soul.  Read it.  Now.

No greater justice could be served than to put the artist into the same circumstances, without food and water, and to wait for time to take its toll, for the eternal predator to expedite the demise of one particularly worthless human being.  With barbaric cruelty.  Sometimes you should get as good as you give. . .

Be sure to visit Friday Ark #161 for your weekly fix of zoological treats.

I feel for people like Wayne and Glenn who have been living in the midst of Georgia’s terrible drought.  That said, this disgusting display of human arrogance should be treated with disdain. . .at best.  When declaring a state of emergency due to the water shortage in that state, government officials demonstrated cruel alacrity in their move to harm endangered species in favor of stupid apes who don’t know how to conserve.  To wit:

“We need to cut through the tangle of unnecessary bureaucracy [of the Endangered Species Act] to manage our resources prudently — so that in the long term, all species may have access to life-sustaining water,” he said.

On Friday, Perdue’s office asked a federal judge to force the Army Corps of Engineers to curb the amount of water it drains from Georgia reservoirs into streams in Alabama and Florida. Georgia’s environmental protection director is drafting proposals for more water restrictions.

More than a billion gallons of water is released from Lanier every day. The Corps of Engineers bases its water releases on two requirements: The minimum flow needed for a coal-fired power plant in Florida and mandates to protect two mussel species in a Florida river.

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“We’ve learned from this what a blunt weapon the Endangered Species Act has become,” said state Rep. John Linder. “We need to understand this lake was created not for mussels but for people.”

[. . .]

“This is not something we can conserve our way out of,” said Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.

Truth be told, conservation should have started long ago, should have been less forgiving and less wasteful, and should have been mandatory.  But nope.  Georgia’s government decided instead to waste and waste and waste, and to let waste.  Now it’s the “lesser species” who will pay the price for humanity’s greed and wanton devastation of nature.  Sorry, but I think it’s time to dramatically prune the human herd, especially if any life on this planet is to survive.