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It reminds me of an article posted on HN a while back [0] about how zebra mussels have helped clean up Lake Erie. It's written by a modern druid, who laments th
by rozab 7y ago
It reminds me of an article posted on HN a while back [0] about how zebra mussels have helped clean up Lake Erie. It's written by a modern druid, who laments that humans so often avoid the ecological solutions mother nature has provided us.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359876
- selectodude 7y agoAnd then birds and fish eat the dead zebra mussels and die of heavy metal poisoning. It's a solution, but it's not a very good one.
- eric_h 7y ago> zebra mussels have helped clean up Lake Erie [...] modern druid, who laments that humans so often avoid the ecological solutions mother nature has provided us. Zebra mussels are an invasive species that were transported to Lake Erie (and the rest of the Great Lakes) via unnatural and unintentional methods. They also make murky water more clear which does not have anything to do with how clean or healthy a body of water is. They're more like cane toads in Australia than the restoration of the wolf population in Yellowstone. But apparently they make for bigger salmon in Lake Ontario https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87843464 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=878434... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- pvaldes 7y agoI doubt that clogging our drinking water pipes and blocking the refrigeration system of electric and nuclear plants would count as solution by modern non-magical people.
- Smoosh 7y agoBeware the unintended consequences. Australia is still ruing the introduction of the cane toad, which was introduced to the country as a biological control mechanism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia