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Should we drain the Everglades?

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116 points ksymph | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 19:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SilverElfin ◴[16 Sep 25 22:18 UTC] No.45268956[source]▶
One thing I don’t understand is why so many appreciate the Everglades. To me a landscape infested with aggressive animals (gators) doesn’t sound attractive or safe. Between them and the invasive snakes I feel like you would need to be on guard all the time. Maybe drain it, replace it with different animals that are friendly, and then refill it. I’m only sort of joking.
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1. bubblyworld ◴[17 Sep 25 09:00 UTC] No.45273492[source]▶
I think there's a bit of "Chesterton's fence" with these issues. If you don't know enough about the ecosystem to appreciate its complexity (aggressive animals are a tiny part of what's going on there) then you definitely shouldn't be allowed to remove or change it. Human ecological interventions have a bad track record.