Why do we not simply eradicate mosquitos? What would be the negative consequences?
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Mosquitos can be AFAIK eradicated without destroying any ecosystems, there might be a fringe case but this is generally true. The issue is eradicating ONLY mosquitos, they have begun to create genetically engineered mosquitos that will produce sterile offspring and then release them into the wild which has been having good results and is highly specific. Another maybe more cynical point to this is who can profit off of the elimination of mosquitos globally? I’m not saying that there’s a conspiracy to keep them around but it would take a government to step up fund research and pay for deployment of a technique to get rid of an annoyance (in America at least where malaria isn’t so much a problem) for the general population. Hell maybe we should crowdfund it.
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