The new wild

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1. nephihahaDec 2025
   Have mostly read novels this year, but when I have read non-fiction it was mostly extracts for my personal research, not necessarily cover to cover.

   I will try to give a wide range:

   * "The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation" by Fred Pearce. A very different view of ecosystems.

   * "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent. Very entertaining.

   * "Bully Inc." by Peter Burnett

   * "The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore

   I have also read a lot of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and some works from the Ethiopian canon.

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2. sienMar 2025
   There is an excellent book about this. 'The New Wild' by Fred Pearce is well worth a read.

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22716462-the-new-wild

   We shouldn't introduce species deliberately in new places, but in many places species have taken off and should be accepted.

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3. sienMay 2023
   The book 'The New Wild : Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation' is really interesting about this :

   https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/22716462

   To quote a bit of my own review of the book

   "The New Wild (2016) by Fred Pearce is a fascinating different perspective on introduced species and their role in ecosystems. Fred Pearce is an environmental writer who writes for New Scientist.

   Pearce puts forward the idea that landscapes that are truly untouched by man are very rare and possibly don’t even exist. He puts forward many, many examples of species that are regarded as native that have been brought in. He also points out that naturally with a changing climate species have been moving forever.

   The book recounts how a new volcanic island was rapidly colonised by species from elsewhere. He also writes about Ascension Island in the South Atlantic that had hardly any vegetation but that visitors turned into a rich ecosystem. But it is far from an untouched one."

   Species have been moving around a lot, dynamically, for a long time. The idea that some species are 'invasive' and others are native is just picking a snapshot in time.

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4. justnotworthitJul 2021
   Think about it too when people (reflexively) tell you not to plant "non-natives". Resources:

   The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation by Fred Pearce

   Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration by Tao Orion

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5. culiFeb 2023
   > the Ventnor Method

   wild gardening, agroforestry, permaculture, etc. Why do people feel the need to rename basic ideas

   Anyways it seems very adjacent to theories and criticisms of invasion biology. See:

   - Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience (academic book)

   - The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation (popular science book)

   - A systematic review of context bias in invasion biology (review, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182502)

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