But sir, it's not going away. This insect exists. It's there. It's attacked these trees. It's going to be a new ecology after this. Why are we trying to manage an ecology when we don't even know what it's meant to look like because climate change is happening and nature will take its course?
I'm trying to understand why we should not just in some sense leave well enough alone, because there's no way we can spend enough money to treat even a significant or a measurable portion of this vast area that we've talked about, so why don't we just leave well enough alone?