If you set aside the anti-anti-Bradford Pear rhetoric this is a pretty interesting article. If we don't treat "non-native invasive" species as enemies in a tot

If you set aside the anti-anti-Bradford Pear rhetoric this is a pretty interesting article. If we don't treat "non-native invasive" species as enemies in a total war (a war we are almost certainly doomed to lose) then there are ways to take advantage of them, as the article describes towards the end. To me the longer-term question of how to (re-)establish a kind of equilibrium between natural evolution and humanity's interactions with it is fascinating. The late E.O. Wilson suggested setting aside half the Earth for natural systems ( https://www.half-earthproject.org/ https://www.half-earthproject.org/ ) which FWIW seems like a good idea to me, at least in theory (putting it into practice seems, uh, tricky though.) It seems to me that we're going to need to garden much of the Earth one way or another.