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> that some species are 'invasive' and others are native is just picking a snapshot in time. What's your point? Invasive plants are still invasive. It's not a
by onlypositive 3y ago
> that some species are 'invasive' and others are native is just picking a snapshot in time.
What's your point?
Invasive plants are still invasive. It's not always a problem but if they're getting labelled invasive it's usually because they're having a negative impact on the existing ecosystem or would if left unchecked.
Negative is relative to our human needs of the status quo I guess but again I don't really see that as an issue what other frame of reference would we be discussing?
- jakear 3y ago> Invasive plants are still invasive. Name a plant that wasn’t at some point “invasive”. You can’t. We call plants invasive when we see their spread, and native otherwise. But whether a human observed a particular organism spreading matters precisely not at all.
- onlypositive 3y agoYes, we call plants invasive when we see them spreading uncontrollably, that's the word we have decided to use to describe this occurrence. Native plants is a term used to describe plants that were present before humans got involved. It's a human centric way to view the world but I guess it's better than us trying to dick around making everything human agnostic considering we're all human and share a bunch of human context with each other.