Donāt kill it leave it be, itās not your choice to kill a creature. Thereās a lot of propaganda going around about āinvasive speciesā invasive species exist because of the conditions humans have put them through, the reason these alleged invasive species turn up where you live is part of a larger issue. Killing them is like owning the electric car and thinking youāre helping reduce climate emissions, we are already fucked. That and itās attached to Sinophobia since those species are native to china, itās just another way to manufacture consent for hatred of Chinese. There are a plethora of other āinvasiveā species that exist all around you but they donāt get as much attention as they do lantern flies.
Pisses me off that farms can use deadly pesticides killing off bugs and other flaura yet the moment they see a lantern fly everyone loses their minds.
The world is getting hot. Get used to seeing more āinvasive speciesā
I think it's fine to kill invasive species, just because it's going to get worse doesn't mean you just give up.
Those invasive species are going to lead to the death of native species, and when that doom spiral happens you've really gone and fucked the ecosystem.
Same logic behind eating invasive Asian carp; if you don't kill it it will kill a native species.
Don't be silly. All moral considerations are logic problems. Theory without praxis is immaterial at best and concern trolling at worst.
And ecosystems are made up of a sum of lives, animal and otherwise. Their collapse inherently kills animals. There is no moral superiority in allowing deaths by inaction.
I mean I'm not gonna kill myself because a few billionaires fucked the environment.
I feel like blaming the whole human species for ecosystem collapse and climate change isn't fair since we've existed for millennia, and the world was fine then.
"The industrial revolution and its consequences", not "the human species and its consequences"
It is crueler to let them destroy ecosystems they did not evolve in.
And no one (who is a leftist) would argue to kill humans outside of Africa, because we can choose not to be invasive butts. We are because of capitalism. These things are because of instinct. There is no way these can reasonably fit into the system they are introduced to, without massive damage to the local system.
I see no reason to value the current ecosystem. Itās completely arbitrary.
If we had tech capable of it, would we be obligated to restore past ecosystems? What if doing so destroyed the current ecosystem? At some point every species alive today displaced another.
What makes the ecosystem as it exists right now especially valuable?
In my view? Unlike ecosystems, animals are actually alive and can suffer. I choose to value their lives over an arbitrary relation of animals at a point in time called an ecosystem.
invasive humans also need to die sometimes, your āgotchaā doesnāt work
the ājust existingā native habitat lanternfly isnāt being killed, only ones where the lanterflys are committing genocidal extinction of other species