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> Mosquito nets work and are cheap and environmentally neutral. Yes, as evidenced by their usage to eradicate malaria... :-/ Many countries also use nets with

• lproven 3y ago
  I'd dispute that. Currently, the countries where malaria is a big problem are poor and suffer from lack of education, literacy etc. But on the one hand, global warming is pushing the Anopheles mosquito range into richer educated countries. That might result in greater and better use of nets. On the other hand, the tropical countries' demography is changing and education and so on is improving, overall, so that might help, too. On the gripping hand, global warming and ecological collapse is driven by the size of the human population and so more infectious disease and more plagues would be good for the planet and therefore good for humanity in general. (Just not the people who die from it, obvs.) So it all balances out. But appropriate technology is more important than the sort of fancy elaborate tech that HN commenters favour, like AIs with frikkin' lasers.