<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Happy National Invasive Species Awareness Week. </span>Here is a link (<a href="http://em.rdcu.be/wf/click?upn=KP7O1RED-2BlD0F9LDqGVeSAozy2kVCPWefOlv11-2BrECc-3D_7b9b5v8ryITSPwCWQv5rP-2B1fX6Dd4aJkGuc46FAPzNpvFwNv1PWgPc6HMzP4W1cmnm-2FKkidwFfO0KZQmoUxXmbIQ4Ez-2FjKix3pwn8RlqfuFszS7i252RfQWMfoXJYBKD0Klclm9HSXhSro0IW1xxyEzm-2BvIJ2MBkMcftFIaypSmBax3FzA0jKM9OOv85iNIRzVfm0TPdgjfvfTlhMk80kbzaLQsI8e9z42xNFW2Z6bw-2Fh8MTVxAEQe8Mefv7oUTLQfBhyZoMdNhpZLYyKRixpg-3D-3D" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Calibri,Geneva,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:12px;text-align:-webkit-left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://rdcu.be/HSal</a>) to a review I just had published in the journal <u>Biological Invasions</u>, of Chris Thomas's book, <u>Inheritors of the Earth</u>, which uses the same techniques as books by Marris, Pearce, Thompson, and Orion to demonize conservationists and claim that invasive species aren't a problem after all. </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thomas recasts invasives as winners, and likes to make provocative statements, like "Mix the species up and see who wins." The book is promoted as a needed dose of optimism, but the optimism is mostly in the form of come back in a million years and see how nature has recovered (or not). I point out various contradictions, conspicuous omissions, and the generally faulty logic that uniformed readers will not notice. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Steve</div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://newscompanion.blogspot.com/search/label/Invasive%20Species">https://newscompanion.blogspot.com/search/label/Invasive%20Species</a><br></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="http://PrincetonNatureNotes.org">PrincetonNatureNotes.org</a></div><br></div>