The Green Files > Invasive Species as Tools of Terrorism?

http://sustainablog.blogspot.com [sustainablog] OK, Gristmill blogger Chris Schults notes that this link from the new issue of National Geographic may seem like a stretch, but his post on the subject goes on to demonstrate some of the other threats posed by non-native plants and animals. And, take Chris up on his question at the end -- certainly we all have invasive-species horror stories...

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Faultline.orghttp://www.faultline.org [Faultline.org] Creek Running North: On invasions and exotics and natives: Between 90 and 99 percent of the biomass in San Francisco Bay is made up of invasive species, but the EPA is still trying to evade its legal responsibility to ban dumping of ballast water under the Clean Water Act. Free trade agreements ensure that potentially disastrously destructive wood-boring insects enter the US each year in wood pallets of sweatshop clothing and video came cartridges.

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