{"id":180219,"date":"2023-01-12T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=188767"},"modified":"2023-01-12T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:00:20","slug":"unchecked-development-means-destruction-for-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/unchecked-development-means-destruction-for-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchecked Development Means Destruction For Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The front page headlines of the Sunday (1\/8) <\/span><i style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register-Guard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provide a classic, if bitter, example of unintended irony. \u201cGrowth on the Horizon\u201d gushes about eight development projects in the area. \u201cIs Winter Miserable for Wildlife?\u201d asks a dumb question. News flash to local humans: It\u2019s not the cold that makes wildlife miserable, it\u2019s the growth of human civilization. One species calls these projects \u201cdevelopment.\u201d Many other species-herons, egrets, harriers, kestrels, red-tailed hawks \u2014 call them \u201cdestruction.\u201d One development project not mentioned is at Golden Gardens Park, where a sports complex may threaten wildlife habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the first thing to do when you&#8217;re digging yourself into a hole: stop digging! Well, the first thing to do when you\u2019re causing (and becoming part of) the sixth global extinction event is, stop growing! Sustainable development is an oxymoron. Planning endless growth on a finite (and increasingly poisoned) planet is planning for collapse. Read William Catton\u2019s book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overshoot<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was one other article in that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register Guard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s front section \u2014 about wolverines, which are going extinct in the contiguous U.S. due to habitat loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jere C. Rosemeyer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor\u2019s note: To make matters worse, the <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RG<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doesn\u2019t note that its Jan. 8 article \u201cIs Winter Miserable for Wildlife?\u201d was originally published in 2019 in <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Conversation<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front page headlines of the Sunday (1\/8) Register-Guard provide a classic, if bitter, example of unintended irony. \u201cGrowth on the Horizon\u201d gushes about eight \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/2023\/01\/12\/unchecked-development-means-destruction-for-wildlife\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,77,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ew-extra","category-letters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}