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[โ€“] mustardman@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mosquitos are important pollinators and have a very important place at the bottom of the food chain.

[โ€“] isame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely something else can be eaten. And there are many species of mosquito that do not eat human blood. I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.

Perhaps I'm under informed here.

[โ€“] mustardman@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.

I think people in China had similar ideas about sparrows... Nature is immensely complex and I can't think of a single instance in which human Intervention improved anything at all

[โ€“] isame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair. I'm entirely uninformed on the sparrows but I do understand nature is an endlessly complex system which we do not and probably can not ever truly understand. Not trying to be absolutist.

But I do wish death on every blood sucking mosquito.