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but, nice try...
It's easy for him to 'protect' a big block of ocean far from anything, with the only real objections coming from the plan's politically powerless opponents.
However, when it comes to something like preventing whales from being driven crazy and beaching themselves due to internal hemorrhaging caused by Navy sonar testing, well, he fought against preventing that.
If the Navy wanted to bomb somewhere within those 195,000 square miles of ocean, I'm sure he'd let them.
The ocean won't be much good if everything in it is dead
He didn't do much to protect drowning polar bears, either.
He's all for putting up 'homeland security' fences that block the migratory routes of endangered animals on the US-Mexican border. He's trying to take, by eminent domain, land from a nature preserve in order to accomplish this.
Between filling the EPA and Interior Department with political hacks and and industry insiders, and ignoring overwhelming evidence of environmental destruction from global warming, I'd say his efforts to 'save the oceans' don't amount to a bucket of squid spit...
