A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)

Re:A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015) by allmskio on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:47PM (#28371936)

Some things can only be saved with insecticide in a remote island. That there are “millions” of other threatened species scattered across the globe with all sorts of micro/macro solutions (or lack thereof), is a nonsequiter.

All you seem to be doing is nitpicking a specific small action despite its clearly defined goal and success, when you can’t even be bothered to propose a concrete alternative action that would do better with the same resources. Just vagaries and platitudes like “insecticide bad in general”.

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Re:A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015) by blix on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @03:33PM (#28372466)

> Some things can only be saved with insecticide

So you can say, with absolute confidence, that no other conceivable solution could ever have been effective? I don't know if I'm that confident about anything.

I don't agree with the defined goal or the method; it's more than just a nitpick. My concrete alternative would probably be to do nothing. Or try to mitigate climate change. And insecticides ~are~ bad in general.

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Re:A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015) by macintux on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @03:45PM (#28372611)

I think of it like chemo: sometimes you have to use poison to achieve a goal. Apparently this summer they declared victory over the ants.

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