About 6 months ago I applied for a job at Chicago Botanic Gardens, which was hiring on the basis of a 10 million dollar grant from the "Negaunee Foundation." Af

About 6 months ago I applied for a job at Chicago Botanic Gardens, which was hiring on the basis of a 10 million dollar grant from the "Negaunee Foundation." After doing a little digging, I discovered that the Foundation was run by a Koch-type billionaire family. It cannot be a coincidence that the majority of the money seemed to be earmarked for eliminating invasive species. Literal NIMBYs A contrapuntal perspective, which I haven't gotten around to reading yet, is "Beyond Invasive Species" by Tao Orion. Not an expert, but I would imagine that as in most things, the first rule of permaculture/ecology should be "first do no harm." https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_W._Colburn https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_W._Colburn https://www.chicagobotanic.org/research https://www.chicagobotanic.org/research https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyond-the-war-on-invasive-species/ https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyond-the-war-on-invas...