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Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without... by ComputerGuru on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:50PM (#29697869)
Milder winters mean huge swathes of the world where certain disease-ridden and economically disastrous pests like ticks and termites are currently walled out from due to the extreme cold in the winter are suddenly going to be much worse places to live.
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Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without... by xvilka on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:51PM (#29698211)
We could bioengineer ticks and termites to sterilize their population, or make diseases for them, like we done to the mosquitoes[1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6

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