To weigh the preservation of threatened species against the financial benefit of their demise is by far the most absurd policy I ever heard outside of science fiction. Heeding fiction over science, Trump is imperiling everything under the sun, becoming more and more an 80’s cartoon villain incarnate, it seems. This is why California is now having to pass a law just to shield itself from Trump's war on clean air, clean water, endangered species, endangered workforce, you name it. A law designed just for the Trump presidency, says this
article.