Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoAll of our best data on the impact says that it really wouldn’t matter. Sometimes a species is a linchpin for the ecosystem, and sometimes it isn’t.
Sucks for mosquitoes, but there’s a very real chance that we’ll smallpox them, and the biggest concern will be our confidence that the virus we use doesn’t impact other species unintentionally.
Haven’t read closely on it, but I’ve seen plenty of articles about the lack of effect we’d see over killing off mosquitoes. I have a feeling that, along with what you said, it’s because they’re tiny.
Consider the dragonfly. They hunt mosquitoes efficiently. But relative to their size, a mosquito is like us eating a candy bar, or even less. Meanwhile, they could snatch about anything else and it would be like a 3-pound steak.
Now that you say that, average us candy bar has 200…250 kcal a piece on average. That’s about 1/7th of BMR of an average healthy male.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hopefully we can do the same for bedbugs. Fuck bedbugs. I can smell the little fuckers
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, at least pubic lice are going extinct!
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I read that as public. I was pretty confused as to what you were talking about
zerofk@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Just imagine what would happen if all lice were privatised.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 2 months ago
Oh no! My patriotic merkin startup plans are ruined! I guess 'MericaMerkins was never meant to be…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Don’t let Trump hear this idea