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Should we kill all the mosquitos in the world Besides spoiling our lives on a daily basis (particularly in tropical countries), mosquitos are responsible for more than a million human deaths every year, to which you can add over 250 millions people getting sick every year. Some claim that this is enough to considerably slow down the economical development of some african countries.
We are now reaching a point where it's possible to eliminate all the mosquitos on Earth, by combining different methods (including DNA modifications). It wouldn't be easy, it wouldn't be cheap, but it can be achieved.
And scientists are now, in a vast majority, claiming that no animal or plant has a vital need for mosquitos as food or a pollen speading agent: basically, it seems no other species would be put in jeopardy if the mosquitos disappered.
So if we accept this idea there would be no major consequence for the ecosystem, should we do it?
Or not?
What do you think? A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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Nature works.....leave it be.... Who knows what the unintended consequences are. They obviously serve some kind of purpose.....what it is will be more apparent once they are gone. | |
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Yeah, let's get rid of those fuckers. | |
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Considering I can think of one animal just off the top of my head that feeds on thousands of mosquitoes each night - the bat, I'm not buying this no animal actually requires mosquitoes as a food source and therefore will be unaffected by the eradication of mosquitoes.
And thinking about it a bit more - birds, fish (eat the larvae) and other insects require mosquitoes as a food source.
Has there ever been a time where a species was eradicated by men and it had zero adverse effect on any other species? | |
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Who the fuck needs the panda for anything? | |
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novabrkr said: Who the fuck needs the panda for anything? Silly.....the Japanese will b knee-deep in bamboo without them! | |
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The Japanese?
Uhhh...pandas live in China. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Damn, you beat me to it.
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As annoying and possibly dangerous as they are, I can't imagine ridding nature of a creature that has been doing it's thing since T-Rex was king of the land. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Just kill all the mosquitoes in Houston, Texas.
And this rigamarole about animals eating mosquitoes? Please.
I was told by several frog-loving radio hosts that I should not want to get rid of the frogs in my pond because they ate mosquitoes. Really? They didn't eat any that I could tell.
And here's something else - I killed all the frogs in my pond and guess what?
I haven't been overrun with mosquitoes. We get mosquitoes when it rains. If it's dry for a spell, they all die. Frogs have absolutely NOTHING to do with the mosquito population.
So you better believe that if I thought frogs would eat all the mosquitoes in my backyard, I'd find some way to co-exist with them. But they don't do a thing in that regard and so therefore all frogs that ever find their way to my backyard get squashed or run over by my lawn mower. | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Kermit is OK. It's only bullfrogs that are in danger of meeting the spinning blades of my lawn mower, or the pointed end of a very sharp stick. | |
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no, we should not kill them all. imo | |
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perhaps the complete eradication of the species would be a bit extreme
but that won't stop me from killing any of those fools if I see them, specially if they enter my home
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But we need things or animals that kill humans | |
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Genesia said:
The Japanese?
Uhhh...pandas live in China. Damnit! | |
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We have other humans for that. | |
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If you had kids (and had seen Kung Fu Panda a dozen times) you could've avoided this. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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~~~~~ Oh that voice...incredible....there should be a musical instrument called George Michael... ~~~~~ | |
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[Edited 10/9/12 18:29pm] | |
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i would be happy killing the one in this room!
"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" | |
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[Edited 10/9/12 15:23pm] This damn "global economy" is gonna be the death of everyone! | |
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absolutely! they serve no purpose. ecologists have concluded that in the long run nothing would suffer from their loss. | |
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I don't understand why you kill 'em: just for being there or are they any kind of nuisance? You make it sound like you just don't like 'em and kill 'em for fun, which is so... horrible and violent
Contrarly to these arthropods fuckers, frogs are vertebrates brothers and sisters of ours and therefore should be treated with respect. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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I'm in Myanmar right now and on anti-malaria medication. And covered in 100% DEET after some bites last week. I highly doubt that any benefit they have for our ecosystem out balances the harm they cause to humans. So I vote to kill every last MFing one of them! | |
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Business or pleasure?
If on vacation...post pics please. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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I'm in Cambodia and mosquitos r givin' us a hard time here as well.
How u like Myanmar? A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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Kill 'em all! And while we're at it, kill all the bedbugs too. | |
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Sorry for the delay answering - the internet was terrible there and power outages are so common that a lot of hotels have huge 60 kVa backup generators outside the front door. Back in Thailand now where things work. No pics yet Purplejedi - my tablet and photo bucket don't like talking to each other, so nothing postable. Data bank - it wasn't my easiest trip by any means. A seriously underdeveloped country with some beautiful sights. But some simple things have been made needlessly difficult through bad or no planning and the time in the international wilderness. I was only ever in Cambodia once - around Siem Reap to see Angkor in 2005 but it was decades ahead of where Myanmar is now. Things like having no international ATMs, leading to having to carry around lots of cash in both kyats and US dollars. And almost no shops - mostly one man stalls , even on main streets. Makes buying something as simple as toothpaste complicated. And few paved roads so intercity journeys take hours longer than they should. And buses with terrible timetables - who wants to get a night bus that leaves at 3pm and arrives at 4am? I ended up taking a couple of unplanned internal flights to save time. And almost no nightlife - even in the big cities, practically everything closes at 10pm - I'm too old for clubbing but I could do without the government curfew. I'll stop my 'first world problems' bleating but I'd recommend either staying a month and assimilating or waiting a few years for market forces and common sense to make the trip easier. My 10 days was too short to do what I wanted to. | |
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