"Малоизвестно, что химическая промышленность сделала много для демонизации растений, которые могут выживать самостоятельно - без химических удобрений - гербицидов - пестицидов или другого содействия технологии"
While there are a few plants that have become ‘a problem’… the hysteria whipped up around ‘invasive’ plants seems to greatly exceede the scope of the problem itself. Some plants condemned as ‘invasive’ are successful in the type of damaged eco-systems and degraded soils typical in the wake of human activity. Even fields that look ‘wild’ to cube-dwellers are usually fields that were farmed in a destructive manner not very long ago. Just because a non-native plant is thriving in a particular spot does not mean that native plants would have thrived in that same spot.
– When those invasives also help heal damaged lands and improve soils AND provide wildlife food or habitat AND provide human food all on their own – that does not strike me as an excuse to slash and burn – or slather the area with chemical hebicides. (A little known fact is that the chemical companies have provided a lot of the momentum to the demonization of plants that can thrive on their own, without chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides or other technological assistance.)
-In some areas, especially those with such little cover to begin with, almost any plant that can survive and grow is better than bare soil and gravel. Living plants are like miniature oasis; they provide a home to a wide array of tiny and microscopic organisms that improve the soil working together with the plants – that in turn provide the means for larger animals to live. Everyone here almost certainly knows this- but why don’t the officials in regions with little rainfall or other harsh conditions?
– Oh, well. We do what we can where we can.
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