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Observation One is Inherency.
A. There are clear structural and attitudinal barriers- four different provisions
authorize bioprospecting on National Park Service lands and the Park Service
refuses to acknowledge that bioprospecting involves selling biological material.
There is clear uncertainty regarding the regulations of bioprospecting.
Andrea Aseff, Attorney specializing in environmental and natural resource law, Colorado Journal of
International Environmental Law and Policy, Winter 2011. [First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place
of Protection: Time to Spur the Legislative Dialogue. Accessed via LexisNexis.] AB
Thus the plan, the USFG should substantially increase restrictions on
bioprospecting by strictly prohibiting bioprospecting in national monuments,
wilderness areas, areas of environmental concern, and similar areas.
Observation Two is Solvency.
A. Federal policies should prohibit bioprospecting in national monuments,
wilderness areas, areas of environmental concern, and similar areas before
irreversible damage is done to our public land and resources.
Andrea Aseff, previously cited. [Attorney specializing in environmental and natural resource law, Colorado Journal of
International Environmental Law and Policy, Winter 2011. First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time
to Spur the Legislative Dialogue. Accessed via LexisNexis.] AB
Advantage One is Biodiversity.
A. The depletion of biodiversity continues to rise and bioprospecting as an
unchecked free-for-all has the potential to severely threaten our already
decreasing biodiversity.
Andrea Aseff, previously cited. [Attorney specializing in environmental and natural resource law, Colorado Journal of
International Environmental Law and Policy, Winter 2011. First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time
to Spur the Legislative Dialogue. Accessed via LexisNexis.] AB
B. National parks are critical preserves of biodiversity and now is the time to act.
Elaine F. Leslie, chief of the NPS Biological Resource Management Division, Park Science Journal,
November 25, 2014. [A bold strategy for biodiversity conservation.
http://www.nature.nps.gov/ParkScience/index.cfm?ArticleTypeID=65.] AB
C. There is an ethical obligation to err on the side of preserving biodiversity and
the benefits of preservation outweigh the benefits of extraction and genetic
derivation.
Andrea Aseff, previously cited. [Attorney specializing in environmental and natural resource law, Colorado Journal of
International Environmental Law and Policy, Winter 2011. First Federal Prohibition on Bioprospecting within a Place of Protection: Time
to Spur the Legislative Dialogue. Accessed via LexisNexis.] AB
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D. Any mass extinction event will happen because of a lack of biodiversity –
every species lost drives us closer and closer to the end of humanity
Noah Greenwald, endangered species expert at the Center for Biological Diversity, February 2nd, 2014.
[“The Extinction Crisis” The Center for Biological diversity is a collective of hundreds of applicable professionals dedicated to securing a
future for all species, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/index.html] Jimmy
Advantage Two is Commercialization.
A. National parks and public lands help inspire people to create deep and lasting
connections with the outdoors.
Jackie Ostfeld, director of Sierra Club's Nearby Nature initiative, Outdoors Alliance for Kids Press
Release, April 2nd, 2015. [Release: National Park Service Prepares To Celebrate 100 Years.
http://outdoorsallianceforkids.org/2015/04/02/release-national-park-service-prepares-to-celebrate-100-years/.] AB
B. Commercial use of park resources leads to a slippery slope in which both the
physical resources of the park and the inspirational quality of the park suffers.
Holly Doremus, Professor of Law at University of California at Davis, Ecology Law Quarterly, 1999.
[Nature, Knowledge and Profit: The Yellowstone Bioprospecting Controversy and the Core Purposes of America's National Parks.
Accessed via LexisNexis.] AB
C. Unchecked commercialization will destroy the natural heritage of the planet
and lead to poverty, hunger, and natural disasters.
Emily Roberson, Native Plant Conservation Campaign Director, March 2008 [“Medicinal Plants at Risk” Native
Plant Conservation Campaign Report, Available online:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/publications/papers/Medicinal_Plants_042008_lores.pdf] SWD
D. Solving the Ecological Crisis is the most pressing problem today. Without
reform of our global lifestyle and relationship with nature, planetary extinction
will begin in 2032.
Richard Vernon Kahn, Ph.D., Dissertation submitted at UCLA 2007 [Mr Kahn is now a Professor at Antioch
University in Los Angeles and has published numerous additional books on this subject “The Ecopedagogy Movement: From Global
Ecological Crisis to Cosmological, Technologic al, and Organizational Transformation in Education” pages