Comments on: Little Green Bugs Ruining Baseball?

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:58:39 +0000

Fair enough–the quarantines have held the little dudes at bay since 2002, and I for believe they’d be nationwide by now if it weren’t for that. Of course, I also believe that they will make that leap eventually anyway, in spite of the quarantine, which is what led to my claim; unlike some of the past invasives that you named–Gypsy Moth is the one I’m thinking of in particular– the climate won’t be able to bail us out.
As for your assertion that having a self-sustaining economy will help matters, I don’t know that that’s a feasible option; the world economy is here, and as you say, the world ecology is following. Perhaps, as this horribly pretentious Atlantic article points out about global warming, all we can hope for the changes we’re making to the planet is figure out how to get rich off of them:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/global-warming

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:35:01 +0000

To say the QT accomplished nothing is a unfair misnomer. You obviously noticed enough to write a piece about this invasive? I think the real issue here is to get the word out that its not just the emerald ash borer the United States needs to be concerned about but all destructive insects that are capable of attacking a native species. Unfortunately history has a way of repeating itself. Gypsy Moth, Sirex, Asian Longhorned beetle are just a few of the many invasives that have had human influence in attacking our forests. Until we go back to buying strictly American and sustaining on our own, the world economy is going to become a world ecology.

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Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:08:13 +0000

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