Socially Constructing Species
31st January 2019
Steve Sailer looks at political speciation.
For example, Lake Shasta in far northern California is the largest reservoir of the vast California aqueduct system. As the population of California grows and droughts seem more common, the idea of expanding the lake’s capacity by raising the 602? tall dam’s height by an additional 20 feet has been considered since the last century.
The Trump Administration is pretty positive about the plan, which has led to one salamander species suddenly being redefined as three salamander species. That might seem strange, but actually this kind of thing is a common occurrence whenever anybody wants to do anything with a dam, going back to the invention of the snail darter species in the 1970s.