re: exotics?

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• Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 18:59:00 +0200
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David South wrote:
 
DS> is my 2 cents.  I want to point out that the world's worst exotic pest has
DS> not been mentioned.  It has spread to more locations and caused more
DS> environmental destruction than any other exotic pest. It is now firmly
DS> :
DS> We have found the exotic pest and it is us (Caucasians from Europe).

Oh please.  I had thought that man was indiginous to Earth, along with
every other species of plant and animal that has ever been, or ever will
be.

There WAS a time when continents were joined, glaciers covered them,
volcanoes massacred them, etc.  Nature has been distributing everything
everywhere far before we joined in.  We would be pretty arrogant if we
decided that the way things are now, they MUST remain for the rest of
eternity, unchanging.  Even if we chose such a course, the forces of Nature
would simply not allow it to happen.

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