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bioemerl · 3200 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let’s Kill All the Mosquitoes -- Now is the time to wipe the disease-carrying critters off the face of the Earth
I think we should focus on vaccines and development in the nations most effected by the bugs rather than wasting massive amounts of money and energy trying to destroy an entire species.
That's fair, but I think that the elimination of mosquitoes might make it easier to develop impoverished nations. Really, I don't know the economics of how the fixed cost of eliminating mosquitoes would compare to the long-term cost of developing the nations in the status quo, so I don't want to speculate too much. You're probably right, though, and then we get to develop the nations, which is really the ultimate goal!