Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Are invasive species as destructive to native environments as we've been led to believe?

Or are they a scapegoat for the necessary destruction of development?

Clare Follmann, author of 'Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong', explains how "invasive" species have been blamed for creating the conditions of environmental degradation — conditions that have actually been caused by capitalism, extraction and colonialism.