Someday a Child Will Ask You Why the Birds Stopped Coming Back

A bedtime story from the future, about the Friday we changed one word in the law and left a whole coast with nowhere left to come home to.

Today, the Trump administration changed the legal definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act, stripping habitat destruction from one of the law’s most powerful protections and leaving millions of acres of private land more vulnerable to development that can push endangered species closer to extinction.

Here’s a bedtime story set 50 years in t…