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To much cats already, they hunt the birds that used to hunt mosquitos. Suburb tragedy.

• SkiFire13 2y ago
  Then genetically modify the mosquitos to prevent them from reproducing.
  • wdh505 2y ago
    Evolution selects against this. You would have to release millions on a regular basis to consistently fight the "biological fitness" of self reproduction
    • ben_w 2y ago
      There's a thing called a "gene drive", which I don't really understand, but it is claimed to get around that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive The toy model of this that fits in my head, is the prisoners' dilemma as a gene: every generation has a local preference for that gene, but overall it destroys that population. Ages ago now, and I think it's been debunked anyway, people were looking for a "gay gene" and wondering how it might remain in a population; one suggestion was that it would cause hypersexual andro-philia, making both men and women with that gene very much more into guys than normal — if that actually existed in that particular form, then (modulo both contraceptives for the women, and sperm banks for gay men who want to start a family) it would count as such.