Chelsea Clinton fears her baby will live on a ‘planet without elephants’
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Yes, pampered liberals really say things like this:
Chelsea Clinton Fears Her Baby Could Live on a 'Planet Without Elephants' http://t.co/o3rBn3U8ki
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) September 24, 2014
From ABC News:
If there is one thing Chelsea Clinton is most worried about, it may be that her soon-to-be child will grow up in a world without elephants.
Standing alongside her mother, Hillary Clinton, at the Clinton Global Initiative this afternoon, the very-pregnant former first daughter warned the plight of African elephants, killed for their ivory tusks, is an “existential” one, and said that if the current poaching rates continue, elephants could be few and far between within the next decade.
Oh, but saving elephants also fights terrorism:
Chelsea Clinton said the African elephant crisis is not only a “moral” and “ecological disaster,” but also a “security threat,” as ivory is increasingly being used by the world’s most nefarious terror groups, such as the Lord’s Resistance Army and Boko Haram. She pleaded that “it’s in all of our interests” to stop the growing practice.
But why is Chelsea worried about Boko Haram and the elephants anyway? President Obama just told the U.N. that Boko Haram is on the way out:
Obama: Ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt & die if it is consistently exposed & confronted & refuted in the light of day.
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) September 24, 2014
Or maybe Chelsea thinks the president is just spewing happy talk?
Sunlight is generally a good disinfectant, but to assume it's the remedy for Boko Haram, ISIS, and al-Qaeda is simply naive.
— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) September 24, 2014
Now, we like elephants, too, but could this all be an example of elephant alarmism? Yes, it could. Via the New Scientist:
Elephants in east Africa are facing what Iain Douglas-Hamilton, zoologist and founder of Save the Elephants, calls “a crisis but not yet a catastrophe”. Elephants are “amazingly resilient creatures”, he says, and in regions where up to half of their deaths are caused by humans, the animals can still manage to maintain healthy communities. But when that number rises above 50 per cent – as has happened in much of Africa – reproduction rates can’t replace the losses, and the species spirals into decline.
Phew. Chelsea’s baby might just grow up on planet full of elephants — and one full of Islamic extremists, too, because it will take more than the president’s happy talk to defeat that threat.
