On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Kathy Kellison wrote:

> Please let me know Paul when you are successful in finding
> someone in U.S. legislature to sponsor such a bill mandating
> the limits as you describe, I would pleased to leverage all the
> support I can.

Kathy, I'm not aware of any pollinator protection organizations
themselves that are interested in promoting legislation limiting
the size of new homes or the size of new cars or the horsepower
of new car engines in order to help mitigate the loss of open space
or the need to grow biofuel crops that consume pollinator habitat.
Instead, I've found out the leaders of these groups themselves
commonly own big homes and vehicles.

For example, public records show that in 2008 the CEO of
the Xerces Society bought an extra large 2,800 square foot
home in a suburb that Wikipedia describes as "one of Portland's
most affluent." That's nearly three times the size of the average
new home back in 1950.

I've also found out it's very profitable for these pollinator
groups to promote government legislation that feeds
money into their organizations.  Example: Xerces claims it's
annual budget this year is $1,500,000 - that's a 50% increase
from 2 years ago largely due to government funding .  So
the top brass of these organizations are enjoying
big pay increases in these times of economic recession
because of their focus on promoting legislation that
treats the symptoms of pollinator decline (in a minor,
ineffective way) instead of the root causes.

Meanwhile, since next to nothing is accomplished for
pollinators on a landscape scale, the net amount of breeding
and forage habitat available for both native and managed
pollinators in the USA continues to decline at a rapid pace

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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