I don't give a crap about the great lakes.
1. I'm not in America
2. I don't release foreign animals into the wild
3. I am not a ranger or employed to oversee the balance of nature or watch for invasive species.
I love and enjoy keeping and breeding tropical fish and I couldn't give a crap what careless people are doing, I have no involvement and my actions would do nothing so why bother making a big fuss about it? As i said species have been invading foreign lands since around the same time colonialism started. nature always balances itself out in the end along with evolution. the Dinosaurs all went extinct without any input from man, so we can't blame all extinction on humans, its the invasive species that are doing the killing, or maybe even its the local authorities that aren't doing enough to restrict the spread of the species, either way it has nothing to do with me so I'm not bothered.
I have lots of things to worry about in my life and invasive species around the world are right down there with alien abduction.
You make absolutely, 100% no sense whatsoever in your lame arguement...
its the invasive species that are doing the killing, or maybe even its the local authorities that aren't doing enough to restrict the spread of the species <-- you need to read this over and over untill you realize what you just said.
1. How are invasives invading foreign land without the help of human interaction?
2. What does colonialism have to do with invasives if the invasises are the ones doing the invading?
3. What exactly can or do you want the local authorities to do? How do you expect them to fix a problem some of us have started? You want a local authority at every creek, lake, river corner just to make sure some folks arent releasing non-natives or maybe they can catch the invasives as they are invading out waters?
4. Since you became a fish keeper, or as you call it, animal keeper because you dont release animals into the wild, you are now, personally and ethically obligated to make sure your fish or animals are not released into native waters.
5. If your statement is true, you do have time to worry about invasives species because you told us you dont release animals into the wild. When you say around the world, thats just what it means around the world, where you live is part of around the world.
6. Nature doesnt always balance itself out, do you think the Mississippi River, Ohio River, etc. are balanced out with the invasion of the bighead and silver carp? Or do you think over an extended period of time, which we wont see in our lifetime, the fish will eventually kill themselves off or bring their population down to a manageable level? This is an answer we dont know and neither do you.
7. What does a dinosaur have anything to with what we are talking about here?
