Environment & Energy

If there are any left.

I suppose farmers could use some sort of nerve gas, as is commonly used to exterminate insects...

Intensive monoculture and invasive species are a bad combination.

In North America, where various small rodents are endemic, every sort of predator eats mice. Snakes, lizards, many different kinds of birds, foxes, bobcats... I've seen them all eating mice.

Australia's endemic predators have not evolved to eat mice. Imported predators such as cats or foxes are as damaging to the Australia's natural environment as mice.

My favorite mouse predators are herons.

The great tragedy of humanity is that our population exploded to 8 billion before we knew what we were doing. We're heading for big trouble if we don't quickly learn that we are not the masters of the natural world that we think we are.