Just think its best to keep things in context.
-derek parr
(cape fear)
Jerry Baker wrote:
> Todd D. Crail wrote:
>
>> My guess is... The snakeheads are filling an empty or vaccant niche,
>> which
>> recruitment from each brood is exceptionally high, and why it appears
>> they're populating at an incredible rate.
>
>
> I don't know if you meant it this way or not, but this is the kind of
> specious argument used by some extremists to minimize or explain away
> the negative impacts of humans on the environment. These types of
> arguments are especially used to argue that no action need be taken to
> control these pests, and that humans are "just accelerating the natural
> course of things." Of course we are, in the same sense that a burning
> engine block is just an accelerated process of rusting.
>
> The argument also does not address the fact that many foreign pests do
> not "occupy an empty niche," but rather hijack one from a native that
> has not evolved to deal with the invader.
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