With the G8 agreement that effectively buried Kyoto and the acknowledgment that technology alone can help if global warming does turn out to be a problem inherent in the upcoming announcement of a new plan by the US, China, India, Australia and South Korea, it’s time for the environmentalists to turn to a new bugbear: invasive species.

As the great R.J. Smith has pointed out, legislation against invasive species (which a USGS scientist compares to terrorists!) would be the “ultimate anti-human, total land-use control tool.” There are currently over 50 bills on the subject floating around Congress. And, as RJ says, “If the Greens are able to keep the Invasive Species section in the Surface Transportation Bill (Highway Bill) it will give the Greens the same power over the nation’s roads that they gained over the nation’s forests. They will be able to stop each and every highway project in each and every state – because they are spreading non-native species and harming native species.”

Biodiversity, it seems, isn’t so important to the Greens as you’d think.