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By any definition humans are an invasive species. Unfortunately killing our fellow humans has been a competitive sport from time immemorial.
Beavers build dams, flooding vast areas and it’s natural.
When humans do it, it’s not.
Makes zero sense.
Isn’t that why many invasive species were introduced in the first place?
I think by sheer number, ornamental plants outnumbers species brought in for hunting/food.
This makes me immediately think about the Cobra effect anecdote (or fable?). Basically, the Indian gov't tried to control the snake population by offering a bounty, and people started breeding snakes and killing them for bounty money. Better writeup here: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/systems-thinking-and-the-cobra-e...
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I think by sheer number, ornamental plants outnumbers species brought in for hunting/food.
Cats and honeybees should be on the list if we are being technical. If we killed all the honey bees, many of the invasive plants they pollinate would disappear as well. As for the cats? You first... No man in Ulthar may harm a cat.
Fogg spears two hundred creatures, in two trips, before returning to his boat... (Fogg has posted his video on YouTube, and it has been watched more than a million times.) It's very disappointing that they don't link directly to this video[1], unlike the New York Times which always links directly to their sources and references. It seems like the New York Times is the only mainstream news site that's not absolutely t…
You said NYT twice, did you mean New Yorker for one?
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Cats and honeybees should be on the list if we are being technical. If we killed all the honey bees, many of the invasive plants they pollinate would disappear as well. As for the cats? You first... No man in Ulthar may harm a cat.
Its already a thing. I hunted feral cats in central Queensland along with rabbits and foxes.
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Cats and honeybees should be on the list if we are being technical. If we killed all the honey bees, many of the invasive plants they pollinate would disappear as well. As for the cats? You first... No man in Ulthar may harm a cat.
Its already a thing. I hunted feral cats in central Queensland along with rabbits and foxes.
you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
Fogg spears two hundred creatures, in two trips, before returning to his boat... (Fogg has posted his video on YouTube, and it has been watched more than a million times.) It's very disappointing that they don't link directly to this video[1], unlike the New York Times which always links directly to their sources and references. It seems like the New York Times is the only mainstream news site that's not absolutely t…