In my opinion the idea that we should only plant native plants and must eradicate invasives is comparable to ideas like allowing only white people and deporting brown people.
Plants, like people, have been migrating since ever, through different means of transport like long shoots extending the area of growth and seed dispersal by wind, water or animals. There is no point in history we could point to and say “This is the distribution of plant species over the planet that’s desirable and we should strive to return to that.” Just like there’s no point in history where human people were distributed on the planet in a perfect way we should strive to go back to.
You know, I really want to upvote this because that is such a wildly Incorrect statement; it seems unpopular because it’s extremely unpopular with folks who know things about ecology.
But in reality, I don’t think that’s too unpopular of an opinion. Have you seen the state of the American yard?
So I think I’m going to downvote because you are both wrong in your conception of the issue and that I don’t think that’s actually too unpopular in society.
Thankfully things are beginning to change.
Also, your race comparison thing is legitimately insulting to humanity.
I start thinking that treating plants as unconscious nonthinking entities is insulting to them, but to each their own.
I mean to say, I believe uncontroversially, that comparing racism to native planting is in bad faith or simply ridiculous.
This coming from a person who is highly invested in plants in both time and money.