Why do we not simply eradicate mosquitos? What would be the negative consequences?
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We don’t know for sure. Which is the problem.
We have a good idea of some of the consequences and we might choose to accept those consequences, but there will also be surprise effects that we don’t expect and we don’t know what those surprise effects will be. If we were going to eliminate an animal that’s already on the verge of extinction, we could make pretty solid guesses on the consequences because it’s already approaching that point. But mosquitoes are just about everywhere and play a big role in keeping the ecosystem the way it is now. There would still be an ecosystem without them but we can’t fully predict what it would look like.
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