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AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:16 PM)

The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, scientists project cascading environmental and human consequences across the Southwest and northern Mexico:
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Environmental Effects

  1. Biodiversity Collapse in Key Regions
    • Local extinctions: Species like the jaguar, ocelot, Mexican gray wolf, and Sonoran pronghorn depend on cross-border movement. If blocked long enough, U.S. populations could vanish entirely.
    • Genetic isolation: Small populations cut off from their Mexican counterparts face inbreeding, reducing resilience to disease and climate stress.
  2. Disrupted Ecosystem Function
    • Predator-prey imbalance: Large predators (jaguars, mountain lions, wolves) regulate prey populations. Without movement corridors, ecosystems could become overgrazed, altering vegetation and water cycles.
    • Pollinator decline: Bats, butterflies, and birds that cross borders seasonally may be disrupted, threatening crops and wild plants.
  3. Water and Land Degradation
    • The wall alters natural water flow, causing flash flooding in deserts and destroying riparian corridors along the Rio Grande and arroyos.
    • This accelerates erosion, loss of vegetation, and desertification in already fragile environments.
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    Human Impacts
  4. Cultural and Community Costs
    • Indigenous nations (e.g., the Tohono O’odham Nation) have seen sacred lands divided and ceremonial routes blocked. This loss of cultural connectivity has profound social consequences.
  5. Agricultural and Economic Effects
    • Disruption of pollinators (like migratory bats that pollinate agave and crops) could reduce yields.
    • Desert ecosystems that support ranching and farming may degrade as wildlife corridors vanish and water systems are disrupted.
  6. Climate Resilience Threatened
    • Borderlands are climate adaptation hotspots: species move northward or upslope to escape rising heat. The wall blocks this, meaning more species will disappear locally instead of adapting.
    • Humans depend on healthy ecosystems for clean water, soil stability, and heat regulation—loss of biodiversity undermines those protections.
  7. Increased Human-Wildlife Conflict
    • As natural ranges shrink, animals like mountain lions, bears, or jaguars may venture more into human settlements, ranches, and farms, leading to more livestock losses and conflicts.
  8. Cost to Taxpayers
    • Maintenance and “upgrades” to the wall cost billions. Meanwhile, repairing flood damage, lawsuits, and environmental mitigation add to long-term costs without addressing root issues of migration.
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    Big Picture
    If the wall remains, the Southwest could lose some of its most iconic species within our lifetime. The region would become less resilient to climate change, more ecologically degraded, and more expensive for humans to live in. What started as a human border would harden into an ecological fracture line—separating ecosystems that have been connected for millions of years.
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Yes.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74817https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74817Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:03 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:51 PM)

Pollution isn’t political, it’s actually real.
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I don't, that's the point, which is why I don't buy this obvious political fear mongering.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74815https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74815Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:48 PM)

You have examples of other walls that were as disastrous as this for one of the most biodiverse parts of the continent?
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74814https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74814Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT]]>Yermom_Is_God — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:46 PM)

I don't know, all the other walls that have been built throughout the history of civilization were fine, but I think this is the one that might destroy the world. 😮
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74813https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74813Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:44 PM)

thinking of other environmental catastrophes… Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, those were all caused by pollution spills, but they could be cleaned up.
The border wall is much more permanent.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74812https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74812Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT]]>Uncreative — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:41 PM)

I know it's not great for the environment and habitats. It seems unlikely that it would be much worse than a lot of other things we've done.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74811https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74811Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:37 PM)

You don’t understand just how bad this is going to be. It completely disrupted the movement of wildlife across the entire content. By any stretch of the imagination, the consequences are going to be disastrous.
It’s already stopped 86% of wildlife crossings.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74810https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74810Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT]]>Uncreative — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 06:35 PM)

That seems like a strong exaggeration.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74809https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74809Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:01 GMT]]>Yermom_Is_God — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:58 PM)

dbentley666 said...
Yermom is a typical uneducated Trump-worshipper. They don't read books or journals. They listen to Faux News with their mouths open, drooling slightly.
Lol, you fools speak so confidently and so smugly yet you're always wrong. I respect the effort.
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dbentley666 said...
Yermom is a typical uneducated Trump-worshipper. They don't read books or journals. They listen to Faux News with their mouths open, drooling slightly.
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AnthonySocksss said...
Data doesn’t lie. No one tells data to do anything, it just exists.
Yermom is a typical uneducated Trump-worshipper. They don't read books or journals. They listen to Faux News with their mouths open, drooling slightly.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74806https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74806Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:42 PM)

Yermom_Is_God said...
Lol!
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74805https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74805Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 GMT]]>Yermom_Is_God — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:41 PM)

AnthonySocksss said...
Data doesn’t lie. No one tells data to do anything, it just exists.
Lol!
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74804https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74804Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:01:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:39 PM)

Yermom_Is_God said...
Yet you continue to be wrong about everything, especially all these fear predictions you fall for. Have you ever considered being a skeptic and not just blindly following everything you're told by people who are historically wrong?
Data doesn’t lie. No one tells data to do anything, it just exists.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74803https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74803Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT]]>Yermom_Is_God — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:37 PM)

AnthonySocksss said...
Wrong fool, I’m reading the academic journals and periodic articles, straight from the source. I suckle at the tit of knowledge and you get none of it.
Yet you continue to be wrong about everything, especially all these fear predictions you fall for. Have you ever considered being a skeptic and not just blindly following everything you're told by people who are historically wrong?
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74802https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74802Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT]]>AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:20 PM)

Yermom_Is_God said...
You obviously haven't looked at any data, you are listening to lefty approved "experts" to tell you the data and then repeating what they say, while ignoring their looooooonnnnnnggg history of being wrong about everything.
Wrong fool, I’m reading the academic journals and periodic articles, straight from the source. I suckle at the tit of knowledge and you get none of it.
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]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74801https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74801Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT]]>dbentley666 — 6 months ago(September 06, 2025 12:00 AM)

Trebbor said...
Pwned.
No spikka de English?

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dbentley666 said...
How can there be "a requirement to allow retards"? Do you speak English at home? Or do you just grunt at the other retards?
Pwned.
Bentley is a walking, talking premature ejaculation of desperation & stupidity.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74799https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74799Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT]]>dbentley666 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:58 PM)

Trebbor said...
You're not capable of judging "witty"… you don't even see humor in your own frenetic desperation to reply ASAP.
It's there… your obsession consumes you.
How can there be "a requirement to allow retards"? Do you speak English at home? Or do you just grunt at the other retards?

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74798https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74798Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT]]>Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:52 PM)

dbentley666 said...
Not witty at all. Work at it, retard! How can there be "a requirement to allow retards"?
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You're not capable of judging "witty"… you don't even see humor in your own frenetic desperation to reply ASAP.
It's there… your obsession consumes you.
Bentley is a walking, talking premature ejaculation of desperation & stupidity.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74797https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74797Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT]]>dbentley666 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:48 PM)

Trebbor said...
Well, you're here, so… obviously there is a requirement to allow retards.
Not witty at all. Work at it, retard! How can there be "a requirement to allow retards"?
Pakistani cab driver returns!

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74796https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74796Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT]]>Trebbor — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:47 PM)

dbentley666 said...
Don't participate in political discussions. Minimum IQ requirements must be met.
Well, you're here, so… obviously there is a requirement to allow retards.
Bentley is a walking, talking premature ejaculation of desperation & stupidity.

]]>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74795https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/74795Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The long-term impacts of the U.S.–Mexico border wall extend far beyond just wildlife. If left in place and expanded, sci on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:00:58 GMT]]>dbentley666 — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 11:18 PM)

Trebbor said...
False narrative ^
Don't participate in political discussions. Minimum IQ requirements must be met.

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