Human

One could be convinced, from reading many National Geographic articles, that man is not part of the natural ecology of the earth. Me I don't understand the logic.

As an example, there was an article a while back about invasive species. Kudzu, it seems, is creating ecological havoc here in North America. What exactly is ecological havoc?? In order to accept this, one must believe that mankind is not part of the ecosystem. He brought kudzu to North America, and screwed everything up.

Would the same term be used had a giraffe decided to move to North America, and bring his prized kudzu with him, or would that be considered 'natural'?? Or if kudzu seeds somehow crossed the sea in search of fertile ground, would that create ecological havoc?? Why does the fact that mankind, part of the ecosystem in my opinion, brought the kudzu here make it 'unnatural' and create havoc?

To me, mankind is part of the ecosystem, and if he (or she, in deference to the ladies) decided to bring kudzu to North America, then it ain't 'havoc', its just natural.

Read enough of these articles and you will be firmly convinced that mankind was dropped on to the perfect earth from outerspace with one goal in mind - to screw it all up.

Its a daunting task, but I guess we're up to it!!!