Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
by ommunist on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:14PM
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This is much more than a million dollar question. I know local economies depending on mosquito larvae winter haul. They sell those to fishermen. Fish populations depends on mosquito larvae in many lake and river ecosystems.
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Re:Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes
by bryanlarsen on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:16PM
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Those economies don't specifically depend on Aedes aegypti.
This is true. But is MBTE specific only to that species? I am pragmatic, I don't care about the "butterfly effect", but I know enough about immune system of Arthropoda, to be sceptical about long term effectiveness of worldwide campaigns and I know enough about development and humanitarian aid projects in the third world to be perfectly sure about bloody huge mismatch between declared and real targets of those campaigns.
Remember human population fertility control effort performed by the US under cover of humanitarian aid in Central Africa less than 30 years ago?
Millions of lives are more important than a few "local economies".