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if only English didn't bring the foxes to Australia...

• Ntrails 8y ago
  Obviously yes, but heck if only humans had never gone to Australia in the first place it would still be populated by innumerable species that simply no longer exist. We were destroying ecosystems long before there was anything that could reasonably be called a nation state.
  • caf 8y ago
    The foxes weren't any kind of accident or incidental to human arrival though - they were deliberately introduced so that fox hunting could be engaged in!
    • OJFord 8y ago
      The combustion engine was deliberately mass produced for vehicles so that people could move faster!
      • caf 8y ago
        In my opinion there's a relevant distinction between the development of a technology that caused incidental and largely unforeseen environmental degradation, and an act of deliberate alteration of the environment that resulted in entirely foreseeable degradation.