Cool post thanks!

I want to read some Stephen Buhner his name keeps popping up.

I always am arguing with people about this, that invasive species and plant in general are intelligent, that they likely don't occupy spaces for poor reasons. Trust natures plan.

people run around like idiots spraying toxic roundup in "ecologically sensitive" areas to control plants like Knotweed, while at the same time it is one of the highest selling medicinal herbs out there and is the cure for lymes disease..so we have these people running around fretting about this "invasive" species trying to eradicate it from areas humans already disturbed in the past, instead of eating it and harvesting it properly for medicine.

And then you look around and see the endless suburbs, roads, parking lots, cities, factories etc built by humans and the devastation is not even comparable. Humans are the most invasive species by far.

And the invasive plant species are the first line of defense against our ignorance(and disease) most often.

I am deeply saddened the way people destroy nature so nonchalantly. Sure destruction is part of life, but there is no respect for nature anymore. Even classes I have taken in environmental science my professor was essentially an advocate for fracking. The environmental studies club organizes events where they go and pull out invasive species. I don't know it just kind of makes me sick and sad how disconnected most of us are from nature, and instead of admitting we don't understand nature or that there may be more to it then plants just wrecking our idea of how an ecosystem should be we go and intervene, with no respect whatsoever. I really hope things change more, and soon.