what’s the issue with the introduction of foreign species to habitats in which they thrive? Change is a part of life and we humans ourselves are a foreign species everywhere outside of Africa.

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what’s the issue with the introduction of foreign species to habitats in which they thrive? Change is a part of life and we humans ourselves are a foreign species everywhere outside of Africa.

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“Thrive” might be a bit of an understatement. Humans are actually an ideal example of an invasive species, because (at risk of sounding like an edgelord by paraphrasing Agent Smith) we don’t find an equilibrium with nature.* We just overwhelm whatever else is there and wreck the ecosystem. Other invasive species are similar in some ways.

*It well may be that we just haven’t found an equilibrium yet, as our rate of global population increase is declining, but we already do a lot of damage and our normal way of life is probably not sustainable as-is.