Oh, our world will be fine, it’s not the Earth’s first mass extinction event. We - and a lot of flora and fauna we depend on - are really fucked though.
It’s an interesting mass extinction event, too. Have we ever seen one species balloon to such predominance? Humans are like 80% of mammalian biomass on the planet. Definite loss of biodiversity. I wonder if it’s a loss of biomass too.
Redefine it to whatever suits you, humanity acts like an invasive species. Not sure why it offends you so much, but it says a lot about your capacity of critical thinking to get so emotional against introspection.
Lol yes if I’m not full on agent-from-the-matrix “humans are a virus” that means I’m a buffoon incapable of introspection. What’s definitely not the case? You are certainly not a jaded weirdo who isn’t particularly good with words and is looking to shit on humans as a species. Yep definitely not that.
I thought invasive implied a species was moved by another. I don’t think a species can be invasive just for moving north or something. Humans moved themselves gradually over time.
They adapted the definition to include causing economic or environmental harm because NERDS kept pointing out that all species are either constantly invading new territory or in the process of going extinct.
A quick search defines invasive species as a type of introduced species, which is outlined as
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
So I’d say that technically they are, but even more to the point it seems like the invasive species definition is very human centric (an alien cannot create an invasive species?)
Obviously this is a super semantically oriented discussion but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say human in this context really refers more to the role. Humans can control other species in that way, like an extra terrestrial also likely could have.
I’m not saying I agree with the idea, I’m just looking for a way humans could be “invasive”
It only took 250 years since the industrial revolution to utterly doom our world.
Oh, our world will be fine, it’s not the Earth’s first mass extinction event. We - and a lot of flora and fauna we depend on - are really fucked though.
It’s an interesting mass extinction event, too. Have we ever seen one species balloon to such predominance? Humans are like 80% of mammalian biomass on the planet. Definite loss of biodiversity. I wonder if it’s a loss of biomass too.
Hard to beat the dominance of archosaurs on Earth for about 180 mio years. Humans are a blink of an eye compared to that.
As long as we don’t kill off the bunch beetles, we’ll be okay.
Man we still fucked it all up though
Generally, overpopulation by an invasive species tends to ruin any habitat. We are just specially adept at it.
So… in your mind it’s for sure we are actually alien in origin?
Our species appeared in Africa. Are you typing this in Africa?
No, because hundreds of thousands of years of migrations led my ancestors elsewhere. That’s not what invasive means.
Redefine it to whatever suits you, humanity acts like an invasive species. Not sure why it offends you so much, but it says a lot about your capacity of critical thinking to get so emotional against introspection.
Lol yes if I’m not full on agent-from-the-matrix “humans are a virus” that means I’m a buffoon incapable of introspection. What’s definitely not the case? You are certainly not a jaded weirdo who isn’t particularly good with words and is looking to shit on humans as a species. Yep definitely not that.
Never mind, if your previous comments hinted at it, this later comment has done a full reveal of it. Welcome to the block list.
I think they meant we’re from Central Africa and technically an invasive species anywhere else in the world.
I thought invasive implied a species was moved by another. I don’t think a species can be invasive just for moving north or something. Humans moved themselves gradually over time.
They adapted the definition to include causing economic or environmental harm because NERDS kept pointing out that all species are either constantly invading new territory or in the process of going extinct.
Are you really logged into the fediverse right now using the word NERD in an accusatory manner?
I’m one of the nerds that does it.
Step off, DORK.
Lol the gloves really coming off now
A quick search defines invasive species as a type of introduced species, which is outlined as
So I’d say that technically they are, but even more to the point it seems like the invasive species definition is very human centric (an alien cannot create an invasive species?)
Obviously this is a super semantically oriented discussion but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say human in this context really refers more to the role. Humans can control other species in that way, like an extra terrestrial also likely could have.
I’m not saying I agree with the idea, I’m just looking for a way humans could be “invasive”
“Overpopulation”? It’s infinite growth and inefficient distribution.
Where do you think does the “overpopulation” come from?