Yeah finding out that earthworms are an invasive species in North America left me really shookhttps://twitter.com/bug_gwen/status/1226552340133617664 …
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On some level it just makes it feel like it's a hopeless battle The Columbian exchange fundamentally altered the KIND OF DIRT we have in America, and native species have been slowly declining in favor of invasive replacements ever since It's irreversible
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You can't stop this particular part of the Holocene extinction at all To deworm the continent again would require another mass freezing or burning, which would just be making *everything* extinct and starting over
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I think cats have also become this way, with too great a wild population to be destroyed. thats learned from the toxo ep of "this podcast will kill you"
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Remember the New Zealand guy who said it wasn't too late to stop cats driving all the native birds and small mammals in NZ extinct if we just rounded up all the ferals and killed them NOW Boy people did not like that
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And saying that from now on you can't let your cat outside period on pain of being immediately put down by animal control The headlines said he was the Most Hated Man in New Zealand
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He was unfortunately also the most right man in new zealand..... his bravery will not be forgotten (by me, notorious bird preferrer)
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Jonathan Franzen has been fighting this very lonely battle for years
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