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In an adversarial legal system, no one represents "externalities".

Parts of Australia have a deer problem, but despite cultivating a reputation for deadly animals, most of it lacks large terrestrial predators, so introducing wolves is an even harder sell than in the US.

It also has prior historical experience with introducing a species to address a previously introduced species, which then becomes a problem itself: foxes for rabbits; cane toads for cane beetles. cue Simpsons



Foxes were introduced to Australia for sport hunting, not to control the rabbit population. The presence of rabbits likely helped foxes spread across Australia.

I agree with your point, though.


There was also dung beetles :https://www.csiro.au/en/research/animals/livestock/dung-beet...

Which by most peoples measure, was a success.

I don't agree with this "Swallowed a spider to catch the fly" approach though.


Even the Devil was given his Advocate...

Interesting observation.




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