This article was posted on October 6, 2013 to CNN.com in the Opinion section. The author is Amy Stewart, and guest to the CNN site. Opening the article is a brief recall on the huge, Asian hornets that have plagued major areas such as Taiwan, China, Japan, and others. The author then takes a semi-defensive stance on the side of the hornets. The hornets have a difficult being, especially the adults.
They must scavenge for food for their young, feed it to their young, and then have their young feed them. As twisted as that sounds, the young are the only source of food for the adults. Food for adults comes in the form of, "drops of clear liquid."
So, after their hard day of work scavenging, the adults are irritable, wandering, and stressed out. People come into the picture. They get stung. They possibly die. But according to the article, it is not the hornets' fault, it's the people's faults for invading on their property. We are at fault, apparently.
Now I see where the author is coming from, and she is ultimately correct in some ways. Yes, humans have come in and eradicated insects such as these hornets' homes. However, it can be speculated that the hornets are a result of evolution, and that they were not originally there (before the humans). There were definitely other species, but it is possible that these hornets have grown this big to match their surroundings...surroundings affected by man.
Either way, people are dying because of these insects, and they should at the very least be controlled in some way. Yes, people have invaded into their homes. But are they not invading on our homes, too? The hornets do not know that they are doing anything wrong. That doesn't mean they should continue to be able to kill people.
There aren't any solutions to provide from this point of view, but there will be some reached in the future. There has to be.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/opinion/rothkopf-shutdown-depression/?iref=obinsite
Last weekend I read a similar post concern this very topic. I comend you for fairly distributing the fault concerning humand and hornets in asain countries.
ReplyDeleteI think this is ridiculous. We cannot be in the way.
ReplyDeleteI think that we will continue to see even more of these phenomena, especially in large urban areas with great population densities. I believe that it is humans encroaching upon the hornets' habitats, not the other way around.
ReplyDeleteI believe that humans are certainly part of the problem. There is no way for humans to looks at the occurrences and think that we have nothing to do with them. Humans have encroached on hornets' habitats as we have on other animals', so we must try to find a solution for all.
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