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Well, the intention of insecticides is to kill insects. All insects. It's working, but perhaps a little too well?
by DoodleBuggy 9y ago
Well, the intention of insecticides is to kill insects. All insects.
It's working, but perhaps a little too well?
- turk184 9y agoExactly. It's what humanity set out to do--we applied chemistry and other sciences to the problem and solved it and now somebody is complaining. Someone who didn't get malaria.
- lightbyte 9y agoThe intention of insecticides is to kill the insects that prey on specific crops, not to kill every single insect there is. It's working better than they thought, causing it to have unintended consequences.