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We need to make mosquitoes extinct, just like we made smallpox extinct.
by rewqfdsa 11y ago
We need to make mosquitoes extinct, just like we made smallpox extinct.
- danieltillett 11y agoWe don’t even need to drive all mosquitoes to extinction, just the species that carry human diseases. If it is really so important to people that they survive then we could put some on an island as a kind of zoo.
- rewqfdsa 11y agoSure. We don't need extreme specificity though: I'd be content with wiping out the whole family if that's what it takes to hit the ones that prey on humans.
- mitchtbaum 11y ago> If it is really so important to people that they survive... I very much like where you're going with this... > then we could put some on an island as a kind of zoo. wait, what??
- Frondo 11y agoThe mosquitos, I think he meant.
- SwellJoe 11y agoWell, the people who like mosquitoes can go, too.
- danieltillett 11y agoI was trying to be sly here by being ambiguous, but yes I mean the mosquitoes.
- mitchtbaum 11y agoAh, thank you.. Then again, they have wings; and, sea levels both rise and fall...
- blisterpeanuts 11y agoActually, we should wipe out only the 200-odd species that feed on blood. We can leave be the other ~1800 species. Some biologists say we could wipe out all mosquitoes and it would make little difference to the ecology; there are enough substitute prey items. But I don't even care about that. Genocide them now!