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The impact on flora and fauna from human development isn't simply from climate change; our localized ecological impacts can be quite severe, as well. I feel lik
by dleslie 5y ago
The impact on flora and fauna from human development isn't simply from climate change; our localized ecological impacts can be quite severe, as well. I feel like our discussion of conservation and reasonable limits on development have been lost in the last few decades, with environmentalism having become dominated by climate change.
- MarkLowenstein 5y agoHard to believe that the most important effect of humans on plant health wouldn't be invasive species. The article doesn't acknowledge that at all.
- i_haz_rabies 5y agoThe gypsy moth problem where I'm from seems like it could become genuinely catastrophic in a few years. That or we figure out how to seed clouds with BTK /s
- LeonenTheDK 5y agoRecently moved from a town with an infestation. Returned a week later, and no exaggeration, 90% of the leaves in my neighborhood had been chewed away. Even ones where residents had taken steps to protect the tree. I'm not old but I haven't seen devastation like that from an invasive species here in Ontario before.
- i_haz_rabies 5y agoI saved my beech tree by wrapping the trunk in burlap starting mid-may, and then burning it/squishing all the (thousands of) caterpillars under it on a weekly basis. It has been traumatizing, but my tree is fine. I also sprayed BTK on my small fruit trees and they have been unaffected. So it can be done... but it is time consuming and disgusting.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoHumans being the invasive species?
- BitwiseFool 5y agoYou could argue that, but mainly the species that get introduced directly and indirectly by human activities.
- MarkLowenstein 5y agoI was thinking plant species: kudzu, Scotch broom, etc.
- i_haz_rabies 5y agoIt feels like even if we were to invent scalable and affordable fusion, EVs and carbon capture tomorrow, we would still be in serious trouble.
- deregulateMed 5y agoFusion will make chemical reactions that didn't make financial sense, possible. Heck fusion might ruin the price of gold.
- minikites 5y ago>with environmentalism having become dominated by climate change Humanity is too selfish to do anything about big problems (climate change), of course we're not going to do anything about smaller problems (localized impacts). We're not doing anything because we expect a magic solution to all of these problems to drop in our laps if we wait long enough. I'm very pessimistic about the future because we're not doing what we need to do today.