The No White List Coalition

The No White List Coalition exists to mobilize opposition to "White List" legislation; to mobilize opposition to the destructive excesses of nativist extremists; to provide rational, science-based and ethics-based critiques of the pseudoscience of biological nativism; and to expose the hidden herbicide industry connections and political agendas of those promoting "invasive species" hysteria.

We are not opposed to rational, science-based agricultural weed and pest exclusion programs. Weed and pest species are a minute fraction of the Earth's species. We already know the majority of species that can be problems for agriculture, and we support reasonable efforts to exclude and control known pest species. Banning the entire biota of the Earth is not the answer, and such an action will have a devastating impact on the progress of scientific research, and profoundly negative impacts on the biological diversity of our natural areas.

Again:
We support reasonable efforts to exclude and control known pest species.

We are not opposed to scientifically-sound management of natural areas. The preservation of biological diversity is essential - it is economically prudent and ethically necessary. The management of natural areas should be minimal, based on sound science, independently audited, and continuously reviewed and modified or ceased when necessary. It should be free from political agendas, have popular support, and be undertaken with humility born of our recognition of our as-yet rudimentary understanding of highly complex ecological phenomena. We do oppose the wholesale micromanagement of species and ecosystems based on unproven vogue theories, political agendas, or hazy romanticism. The history of ecosystem management demonstrates that our well-meaning efforts are destructive failures more often than not. "First, do no harm."

We are not opposed to bona-fide efforts toward the ecological restoration of damaged and polluted areas. We are opposed to "restorations" of healthy areas which seek to arrest the successional trajectories of the sites at a preconceived, idealized "parkland".

We absolutely support the protection of native plants and animals as well as natural and inhabited landscapes.