Posted on 08/20/2022 10:39:35 PM PDT by algore
Not all species that are not native to a specific location are invasive. To be considered as such, they must adapt to new areas easily and reproduce quickly. By outcompeting the native species, invasive species thrive and cause harm to the habitat and the economy.
Humans have undoubtedly had a significant impact on the environment leading to catastrophic climate crises, and threatening the planet and its inhabitants.
However, can we really say that humans are an invasive species?
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The National Geographic Society defines an invasive species as an “organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area and can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area”.
Similarly, the US National Invasive Species Information Centre defines invasive species as “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.”
According to both the definitions outlined above, to be categorised as an invasive species, certain criteria must be fulfilled. These include being non-native to the locality, adapting and reproducing quickly, and causing environmental and economic harm to the area.
While the climate changes naturally, humans are now considered the main drivers of climate change. By attempting to modify the natural environment to conform to the needs of modern societies, humans have caused catastrophic events such as global warming, environmental degradation, mass extinction, and biodiversity loss that have led to an ecological crisis and ecological collapse.
Humans have affected and changed biodiversity and the ecosystem in multiple ways. Approximately one million flora and fauna species are threatened with extinction, more than ever before in human history, as a direct result of human activity.
A report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found that three-quarters of land and 66% of the marine environment is significantly modified by human actions.
One of the most famous examples of a species that became extinct because of human actions is the dodo bird,
Invasive species? You mean Jan 6 committee members? Yes, they are free moving metastatic tumors.
Yes. Modern humans are tropical animals. They die in temperatures below freezing if they get wet.
The invention of clothing allowed modern humans to expand beyond their original range and wipe out other species of humans. The final step was the invention of sewn, multi-layer clothing around 40,000 years ago, which allowed the extension into the arctic.
“Language is a virus from outer space”
― William S. Burroughs
Only environmentalists regard human beings as not being a part of the environment.
The humans that align with the democrat party are.
The liberal progressive variety of human are, but the rest are just trying to make through the world.
“an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health.”
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economic harm - check
environmental harm - check
harm to human health - check
Yep, your sub-species qualifies.
Somehting you are gonna see a lot,of in the co ing months and years is the term “Rewilding”, as the left treat humans like,they are a virus which has destroyed the “pristine wildernesses” of the world. The godless left are unaware evidently that God created the world for man
“..But you’re afraid of her?...”
It’s not just any old fat woman ready to die. It’s the vile PIAPS.
The graveyards are full of many a folk have tried to take down a Toon over the years...the list is loooonnng.
It may be old, fat and getting ready to die, but it is STILL a deadly poisonous rattlesnake.
However, can we really say that humans are an invasive species?
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Well, it is Sunday morning and what did Jesus say about those who belong to Him.....
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
The largest category of life on the planet by mass is the ant. We are advised to eat them. Ants are invasive and they are environmentally destructive. Their destructive impact on the earth is greater than all other species combined.
Ants create formic acid is vast quantities killing countless species. The volume of ants exist at the cost of killing and consuming a greater volume of life, plant and animal. Simply by eating, ants consume more living organisms than any other class of creatures.
The eradication efforts will be epic.
Liberals/Communists are an invasive species.
Yep, there’s no such thing as invasive species; only competing species.
Only liberals.
They invade and destroy every place that is good.
They also clean up most of the DEAD animal and plant life, a net benefit so we're not knee-deep in bug corpses.
It’s amazing how nature balances things out. And yet some people believe that we’re all just here by random.
They also kill all life in their vicinity.
If kangaroos could swim we’d see them all over the Great Plains.
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