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When Parakeets Plundered New York

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

A lot of our ideas about population booms and busts, they're informed at least by how we think about animal population cycles. There's this kind of shared anxiety about growth in natural things like whether they're animals or people that are happening at the same time. Ben Nadaf-Haffrey: The fear is that they're going to overwhelm the natural limits of the planet,. which is sort of a harmful idea for the environmental movement today.

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