This is not scientifically well supported, on a account of "maybe we can just kill them all"[1,2] is a question surrounding whether we deploy the gene-drive bio

This is not scientifically well supported, on a account of "maybe we can just kill them all"[1,2] is a question surrounding whether we deploy the gene-drive bioweapon against them[3]. The counter-argument leans heavily on the vague feeling that we shouldn't do this, rather then much concrete-evidence this would really be a problem. And the communities blighted by mosquito-born pathogens (which covers a huge chunk of human civilization on the planet) I suspect are only restrained on account of the lack of money and technology to implement it themselves. IMO the question is going to be answered for us at some point: a sufficiently virulent, mosquito born disease will emerge (or just be Zika, with mosquito carriers moving into 1st world areas on the back of climate change) and the answer will rapidly become yes. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585176/ [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835 [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24790-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24790-6