I love stumbling across random information like this. I had no idea that mint spread so aggressively - and will likely never need this information. But it's fun to learn.

My sounding port is DC 24V compatible, just hook me up, I have still decades of battery life to offer!

Yes, humans.
We destabilised to fairly high extend literally all the ecosystems (unless you count battery cage farming as an (artificial) ecosystem, that one boomed, agricultural monocultures too).

But I'm not just continuing a bit, humans are rally the source of a lot of invasive species introduced to local environments where otherwise that wouldn't happen. And it mostly happened unintentionally, but intentionally too.

The dif I wanna point out is the scale & timeframes.
Eg naturally (by which I mean without human involvement) invasive species mostly happen really slowly, and from adjacent ecosystems (sure, there are exceptions, but it's like spiders shooting butt-strings into the air & just by chance floating to Hawaii). Bcs ecosystems overlap, there is no strict boundary for the species.

And that is what always happened throughout history, it's part of evolution (ever fauna actively transferring various species to new environments).

True. Which still leads to an infestation.

On non-logarithmic scale:

And don't forget that shown is just the last couple of thousand of years - there are 4 more millions of years prior to this of slow growth (and some collapses) but it wouldn't even register on such a chart.

Ugh, I guess this is far off topic.

And that's the actual definition of a weed: If you don't want it there, it's a weed. If you do, it's not.