[inferiorhuman]

Try having neighbors. I've one who thinks she's quite the environmentalist because she "feeds the deer", which means leaving fresh fruit and veg out. Sure the deer love it, but so do the rats (the neighbor blames the HOA landscaping for the rats). She also leaves out peanuts, so I constantly have squirrels and jays digging up my attempts at gardening things so they can bury their loot. The HOA copes by leaving poison traps out. Of course the coyotes and raptors don't know this and keep coming by anyhow. But hey, she's an environmentalist.

Alternatively try living in an area with a high risk of fire. Leaving your back yard to grow wild could easily create a huge tinderbox. There are fire resistant plants suited to e.g. dry summers, but invasive stuff that's ill-suited to dry summers is just as happy to take root.

[mock-possum]

It sounds like you want to live in a place devoid of animals - deer, squirrels, rats, jays, coyotes, hawks - isn’t that a but cruel, considering they were here first?

[inferiorhuman]

No, it sounds like I don't want my neighbor feeding the wildlife. It sounds like I don't want the HOA to feel emboldened to set out poison traps to deal with the consequences of feeding wildlife.

FWIW I said raptors, not hawks. So yeah. Owls, vultures, hawks, osprey, falcons, we get them all out here. When they eat a poisoned rodent they'll likely die. Scavengers that eat the dead birds will also get sick. It's bad all around. Deer are already overpopulated. None of what this person is setting out is particularly good for any of the animals. These are wild animals that are perfectly capable of finding their own, healthier, safer food.

It's like with the monarchs. Folks should be careful about where they plant milkweed in part because of the disastrous effects it can have on their migration. The same thing can happen with vertebrates like migratory birds.

There's a reason why feeding wildlife is pretty much universally condemned: it's bad for the animals.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/idkt_feedingwildlife.htm

https://www.audubon.org/news/to-feed-or-not-feed

https://dec.ny.gov/nature/wildlife-health/do-not-feed-wildli...

https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/revealed-the-d...

https://www.fws.gov/story/feed-or-not-feed-wild-birds