Weeds ?

Another moist and verdant morning and an enjoyable 25 minutes running through the woods and undergrowth.

Last night we watched a documentary about so-called weeds, which are plants in conflict with human activities. Plants, like animals & humans, simply exist to survive as species by replication. Generally, over time, an equilibrium is reached between different species until an environmental trauma occurs, or one species begins to dominate, and then a new equilibrium has to be established, in a naturally dialectic process. The troubling underlying conceit is that, even now in the allegedly environmentally aware 21^st century, the human goal seems to be to control these plants eugenically, rather than to learn to live in harmony with them. Our survival plan is essentially to feed our own unfettered replication by sucking the environment dry, rather than by adjusting our demand to suit what is naturally & harmoniously available. In that way we have a great deal in common with Japanese Knotweed.