This is the closing line of the very nice article.<p>> The future is in our hands.<p>It always has been, and always will be.<p>The problem, as outlined in the article, is that we (the entire human race) have almost always left it in the hands of our "betters", and those wealthy folks have very rarely given a crap about the rest of us, or our beloved mother Earth.<p>They think that their having wealth makes their every whim and fancy the right and proper thing to do, and, as the article shows, that is far from the truth.<p>Of course, we peasants have to, ourselves, learn how to truly be better, truly know how to wield power for the benefit of <i>all</i> human beings, out of compassion for all of our children, and our children's children, ...<p>"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights." --Peter Tosh<p>"Love is the truth." --Jack White's song of the same name
> he set about planting the seemingly barren island with Southern Hemisphere exotic species, first by screening the exposed site with plants such as native gorse and then with hedges of Chilean Escalonias and Rhododendron hybrids.<p>Rhododendron looks pretty but is an absolute plague in Ireland. It grows so big and vast that people sometimes get lost in them.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27882358" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27882358</a>
"We may well have to live side by side with our subtropical southern hemisphere gardens and see them for what they are, as relics of a 19th-century gardening obsession"<p>I find this perspective more compelling than calling it "rewilding". The word is somewhat novel and loosely defined.
It looks like we were successful at removing murder hornets in the US so that's nice:<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/us/invasive-murder-hornets-are-wiped-out-in-the-us-officials-say/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/us/invasive-murder-hornets-ar...</a><p>Where I live in the NW rocky mountains we've lost the battle against Tanzi sadly.<p>People who talk about 'our betters' destroying things, in the Rockies we've ended up with a ton of 'transplanted' plants at our campgrounds (we had enough out of area people introduce poison ivy with their camping gear the parks had a campaign to eliminate it, at least our 'betters' brought something they thought worthwhile not introduce friggen poison ivy) because of lazy/nasty people who can't be bothered to keep their camping gear clean. Our lakes are devastated from non-native species spread by lazy recreational boaters who again can't be bothered to clean up. The 'just living life' type roamers bear quite a bit of blame for the modern spread of damaging non-native species (this coming from a Santa Cruz hippie kid that moved to the mountains).<p>Come on people, clean your camping/boating gear when going out of your normal area!
>The other really interesting observation is the presence of the unarmed stick insect—native to New Zealand, it can be found here.<p>Awesome job lads, thanks so much for the empire being able to introduce us to things like this.