2011-12-01, 09:26 PM
The Great One Wrote:True they are killing some but were talking about the population here this genetic thing would spread the reason it didn't on their island test because it was just that an island you put this in Africa all it takes is for a few males to hitch a ride somewhere else.
People think the way you do because they are only thinking how this affects us when you say mosquito people automatically think blood suck spreader of illness. They don't think pollinator of plants a basic part of the food chain.
You don't get it, do you.
DDT kills some mosquitos... and also other insects, alternative pollinators of those plants you're worrying about. And every bird and rodent and reptile that eats the poisoned insects. And every predator that eats those small animals. And so on. The poison doesn't affect the food chain in hypothetical ways as you describe (and which might never come to pass: some other insect which was competing for the same pollen will breed like crazy, the birds will eat it, equilibrium restored), it's proven to be directly deadly.
And I don't have to tell you what happens if a swamp is drained... that's a habitat and all its denizens, gone.
So yeah, the methods used today are far more destructive of the environment.
The one in the OP is actually an improvement.