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John Duarte: “They want to call crinkle habitat for 17,000 new species…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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John Duarte speaks at Lincoln Stanislaus GOP Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 05:10

… their grazing rights against conservation groups that simply want to shut meat production down and let more forests burn. What? And these are just examples. This is just the beginning. They want to call crinkle habitat for 17,000 new species. They're looking to list anything the species might like to live in once modified in some possible way under some imagined future climate change regime. I mean, they could be put in Buffalo, in the Antarctic by their standards. And it keeps going. And what we learn more and more as we look at history. (05:10–05:24)

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Asserts that there is an effort to designate habitats for 17,000 new species based on potential future climate change.

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