Did We Really Need to Squash All the Lanternflies? by disease ecologist Hanna Ehrlich is an interesting, thoughtful meditation on invasiveness, the lanternfly stomping craze and nativism. I long suspected stomping didn’t do much, but it’s funny the degree to which (collective) we latched on to it as a means of feeling involved in something good during a time that was, broadly, bad. I didn’t move to New York until after the craze has already started, but stomping lanternflies made me feel like I was less of an outsider in a city that has a toxic obsession with nativism.
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