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I don’t care. Malaria and dengue are sufficiently bad that I’d take the risk. This has been studied, though. No animal only eats mosquitoes, and I’d only start
by rdl 9y ago
I don’t care. Malaria and dengue are sufficiently bad that I’d take the risk.
This has been studied, though. No animal only eats mosquitoes, and I’d only start with a few species (but likely expand to all of them.)
- senand 9y agoReferences, please? I would be surprised if mosquitoes don't play any role in the ecosystem, honestly.
- rdl 9y agohttps://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
- bryanlarsen 9y agoOf course they do. They just have almost perfect substitutes that would quickly take their place, the non-disease carrying mosquito species.
- F_r_k 9y agoI'm sorry but that is a bit ignorant on your part. Ecosystems and ecosystem services should not be underestimated. You could have a much bigger impact that you could think of.
- petters 9y agoCompletely agree. Even if it would be really bad for the ecosystem (it would likely have little impact), the benefits are so very vast out would be worth it. This is an example of score insensitivity. How many humans die each year of malaria? If this was in Europe or America we would already have done it.
- ben_w 9y agoNothing is sufficiently bad to not care. Caring is the only way you can even tell if there is a risk, if you’re playing with fire, if there is a chain of causality that leads right back to you. DDT was supposed to be a risk-free way of killing mosquitoes. Nobody knew the side effect existed.