Best of Earth911 Podcast: Author Lowell Baier Explores The History Of The Endangered Species Act

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Author Lowell Baier Explores The History Of The Endangered Species Act

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The Endangered Species Act (ESA), handed in 1973 and signed into regulation by Republican Richard Nixon, has been a bulwark towards unrestrained deforestation and improvement for over 50 years. It has protected and helped restore 1,700 species that teetered getting ready to extinction however returned to viable populations. Author Lowell Baier was a younger lawyer in Washington, D.C., when the regulation handed and has labored for 60 years at the vanguard of environmental regulation, together with main the primary President Bush’s conservation insurance policies in 1989. Tune into this crucial dialogue to be taught from Lowell’s work on a complete historical past of the ESA in two volumes, The Codex of the Endangered Species Act and his just-released ebook, Earth’s Emergency Room: Saving Species As The Planet And Politics Gets Hotter.

Attorney & Endangered Species Act Historian Lowell E. Baier is our visitor on Sustainability In Your Ear.

Lowell explains the origins of the regulation throughout the Sixties and 70s Green Revolution and the revitalization of the ESA within the Clinton period, which made it simpler and responsive within the face of local weather change. A post-partisan motion, Conservation Without Conflict, is now working in Washington to cross new laws, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, to increase funding to help state and federal species restoration packages—Lowell Baier’s books can be found on Amazon and Powell’s Books.