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The core principle built into our society is that a lot of people on earth must suffer and die so that the lucky few can live the prosperous lives we do. Just saying. Admitting it is maybe not so popular.
That's extremely cynical and unwarranted.
Almost no support for the thesis of "bad things will happen if we wipe out mosquitoes" other than "We don't know what will happen." On the flip side, we do know what will happen if the Aedes aegypti, Anopheles, etc... is allowed to continue to exist - 100s of thousands of people a year will die. I wonder how the author would feel about keeping mosquitoes around "just in case", if hundreds of thousands of her neighbor…
The author might as well say that we should keep polio around, just in case. Just because mosquitoes are macroscopic they have this perverse fear of unintended consequences.
Almost no support for the thesis of "bad things will happen if we wipe out mosquitoes" other than "We don't know what will happen." On the flip side, we do know what will happen if the Aedes aegypti, Anopheles, etc... is allowed to continue to exist - 100s of thousands of people a year will die. I wonder how the author would feel about keeping mosquitoes around "just in case", if hundreds of thousands of her neighbor…
The author might as well say that we should keep polio around, just in case. Just because mosquitoes are macroscopic they have this perverse fear of unintended consequences.