The recent environmental report from Washington regarding the eradication of “murder hornets” brought both hope and despair. If our state and county governments took invasive species seriously, we could eradicate some of the most ominous threats to these islands. We could fully engage, public and private. But so far, we choose to underinform the public, sidestep the funding, and slough off the responsibility to disabled offices and contractors in a pretense of doing.