The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - January 14, 2024


Invasive Species Cause Mass Extinctions as Do Open Borders (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_636)


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9 minutes

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1,283

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53


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00:00:00.300 Hi everybody, this is Scott Saad. This is, I believe, the first Saad Truth clip since the New Year.
00:00:08.760 Hope that your New Year is off to a great start. I just returned with the family from Florida.
00:00:16.460 I went there, I had a few professional meetings, also tried to relax a bit, but the weather was uncooperative.
00:00:24.680 In any case, I'm currently reading this book. If you can see it, it's Naturalist by E.O. Wilson.
00:00:33.780 It's his autobiography. Great book. I highly recommend it.
00:00:36.820 And in the book, he recounts all of the expeditions that he's had, certainly early in his career,
00:00:44.000 when he went to New Caledonia and Australia and what is now Vanuatu and other South Pacific islands.
00:00:54.000 And that triggered a thought in my head, which I tweeted earlier today, which, of course, led one noble person of perpetual peace
00:01:05.900 to then tag my university trying to get me fired.
00:01:10.680 And then when I put the heat up on this guy, he deleted his account.
00:01:15.020 And basically what I was arguing is that in the same way that many species go extinct or are severely threatened
00:01:26.520 when an invasive species comes in, it could be in the flora or fauna kingdoms,
00:01:31.520 the same logic applies when it comes to if there's an open border immigration policy where millions of people come in
00:01:43.320 who don't share the values of the host nations, with enough time, there will be the exact same type of extinction of the host culture.
00:01:53.260 But just to put in context, I wanted to read for you here.
00:01:58.860 This is an article written in the Wildlife Society a few years ago, March 18, 2019.
00:02:06.740 Invasives are the primary cause of global extinctions in the past five centuries.
00:02:12.720 So I'm just reading for you now. I'll put the link to the article in the description section.
00:02:18.840 Invasive species are either the culprits or the accomplice in the extinction of some 300 species across the planet,
00:02:26.680 according to new research.
00:02:27.900 It tells us that we have quite a challenge, said Tim Blackburn, an invasion biology professor at University College London
00:02:34.420 and the lead author of a study published recently in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
00:02:39.720 It shows us that alien species are a major cause of extinction.
00:02:44.080 Blackburn and his co-authors examined the International Union for the Conservation of Nations
00:02:48.840 Red List for species that have gone extinct since 1500, including the Passenger Pigeon,
00:02:58.120 I won't read the scientific names, the Tasmanian Tiger, the Dodo, and the Great Auk.
00:03:03.620 They also looked at the reasons the IUCN listed for this species' demise.
00:03:09.100 The team discovered that since the 1500s, 953 listed species had gone extinct.
00:03:15.380 Around 300 of those disappeared, at least in part due to pressure from alien species,
00:03:21.100 including 261 animal species and 39 plant species.
00:03:26.360 This was the primary driver for extinction among these species.
00:03:30.420 A surprise to the researchers who had assumed habitat destruction would be the main cause for species extinctions in the world.
00:03:38.160 Furthermore, 42% of the 300 species that disappeared was due solely to pressures from alien species.
00:03:47.240 Alien species are more than 12 times as likely to be listed as the cause of extinction than native species, Blackburn said.
00:03:55.800 According to their analysis, island species were particularly vulnerable to invasives,
00:04:00.360 and Hawaii alien species like cats had a hand in causing extinction in an entire genus of o-birds,
00:04:08.820 I don't know how to pronounce that name, including the Hawaiian o and the Ka'ua o,
00:04:16.320 while brown tree snakes have caused the extirpation of a number of the native birds on Guam,
00:04:21.940 as well as the extinction of the Guam, flycatcher.
00:04:25.780 With perhaps 400 to 500 new alien species populations turning up around the world every year,
00:04:32.580 Blackburn said the problem may become even worse in the future.
00:04:35.880 In an effort to deal with this issue, he called for heightened biosecurity measures
00:04:40.300 to protect native ecosystems from stop-away species on container ships, airplanes, and other means.
00:04:47.440 In a lot of cases, we don't know what the impacts of those species are going to be, he said.
00:04:52.920 So now, I discovered this article after having posted my epiphany, my insight earlier today,
00:05:01.160 drawing an analogy between invasive species in the animal and plant kingdoms,
00:05:08.240 the flora and fauna kingdoms, with the extinction of cultures and societies,
00:05:13.440 either through war, one culture, you know, comes in by force and takes over and other eradicating
00:05:21.680 all of the cultural fossils of the conquered culture,
00:05:27.340 or in the case of the current reality where the West is involved in an orgiastic faux empathy
00:05:35.320 of open border policy where you let in people that don't share any of your foundational values
00:05:42.380 with enough time, it's only demography, demography is truly destiny,
00:05:49.020 you will end up having an extinction of the host societies.
00:05:52.340 There are endless such examples in history, but perhaps no cases where a host society
00:06:00.560 was the willing and proud participant in its self-destruction.
00:06:07.320 I am a product of immigration, so I don't need people to lecture me about the virtues of a rational
00:06:17.240 and sane immigration policy.
00:06:19.960 People do face hardships, usually because of their religion or their race or their sexual orientation,
00:06:28.120 where they might be killed and executed, their entire families erased because they're not born into the right religion.
00:06:41.820 And therefore, we might decide as an empathetic society to say,
00:06:47.980 hey, there'll be some minimal number of people that we will allow into our countries
00:06:52.680 because, you know, we are an empathetic people.
00:06:57.220 Other people were born with a poorer lot than ours,
00:07:02.100 and so let's open our societies to them.
00:07:06.080 And that has, of course, worked well, as long as it was measured, it was rational,
00:07:12.960 it did not violate reason and logic.
00:07:20.120 So, for example, the concept of cultural relativism where you shouldn't judge the cultural and religious beliefs of others
00:07:27.240 because that would be cultural imperialism is an idea pathogen that I discuss in the parasitic mind
00:07:32.580 because that's insane, right?
00:07:34.680 If you let in people from societies that have 95% to 99% endemic Jew hatred
00:07:40.860 as measured by non-partisan survey companies,
00:07:45.880 and then you let them in the thousands, if not millions,
00:07:50.160 how is it surprising that the whole society will have an exponential and astronomical growth in Jew hatred?
00:07:58.740 The same applies for any other mechanism, right?
00:08:02.320 If I let in people who, for whatever reason in their societies, they abhor gay people,
00:08:10.000 well, then if you let in millions of such people that come with the cultural and religious baggage
00:08:15.040 of holding those nefarious, bigoted views,
00:08:18.240 then it's not surprising that there'd be greater homophobia in the whole society.
00:08:22.440 I've explained before, when you start any given day,
00:08:26.640 only one of three things can happen to your weight.
00:08:29.060 Your weight can go up, it can stay the same,
00:08:32.160 or it can go down as a result of decisions that you make that day.
00:08:35.460 There is no other possible option that can happen.
00:08:39.580 Same thing applies to immigration.
00:08:42.160 When you let in people in the millions who come from particular societies
00:08:47.020 that are defined by certain values that are perfectly antithetical to those of the host nation,
00:08:55.280 will that result in a safer society, a freer society, a more enlightened society, or the opposite?
00:09:03.320 It's not rocket science.
00:09:04.640 I still hold out hope that the West will wake up at some point,
00:09:10.660 but believe me, it doesn't take much for you to blink your eyes
00:09:15.840 and then to wake up and say,
00:09:17.920 hey, whatever happened to our free and enlightened societies?
00:09:22.640 Happy New Year, everybody.
00:09:24.440 Don't forget, your voice matters.
00:09:26.860 Get engaged.
00:09:27.660 Cheers, everybody.