How Can Invasive Species Destroy The Environment

In the average human package, one observes a myriad of amazing skills. Some hold an amazing capacity for information, others are all-star athletes, and some possess analytical skills that surpass all others. We are so good at so many things, adaptable, instinctual, and travelers. And with these skills, comes the ability to alter an environment, impact an environment, destroy an environment; destroy the environment. It’s not hard for us to alter the delicate ecosystems, in fact there have been uncountable instances where we have created environmental problems. Invasive species are among the environmental problems that humans have created. There is a lack of understanding for the importance of the invasives issue. Invasive species are real, and
These migrations of species aren’t purposeful, and regulations that have introduced waiting periods and quarantines are more common than ever. Still, regardless of the means we take to try to manage our impact, our innovations tend to lead to unavoidable effects. What one may call theoretical consequential inevitability, is the way the world has lived on, and humans do not hold the amazing capacity to comprehend life that doesn’t adhere to action followed by consequence.
An example: On a stormy night, lightning cracks and shakes the house. The lightning has hit the tree in the front yard. Didn’t you hear it, the big SNAP? According to the universe, your tree has been hit by lightning, because lightning has hit the tree. It’s a beautiful tree, an ash tree, to be exact. Maybe you’re worried that that old tree won’t bounce back after losing such a big branch. Thanks lightning.
What you didn’t know was that the tree was already losing steam. Nay, that old ash was losing phloem. Phloem, as in that material in the bark that translocates sucrose to all parts of the tree. And by losing this essential layer, that ash tree was beginning to have trouble sustaining