Trying to save nature while waging a chemical war on pests

"These days we’re increasingly concerned to preserve biodiversity. But we’ve also deployed growing arsenals of chemical weapons to eliminate whatever creatures we deem problematic. Joanne Lauck estimates that Western culture has classified around 10,000 species of animals as pests to be annihilated from the planet. And sometimes these campaigns of selective genocide come within a hair of success, as happened with North American wolves, bison, eagles, or condors. More recently, our wars on rodents, fire ants, or potato beetles have caused massive collateral damage for bats, bees, peregrine falcons, and monarch butterflies. In general, when we rain friendly fire on the creatures around us, the environmental blowback tends to get serious. " https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...