> To an environmentalist, infecting humanity with a multitude of plagues and diseases is merely taking out the trash.
In this case, Environmentalists are probably right. As New Zealand has found out to its cost, time and time again, when you release a previously-unknown organism into the wild, unpredictable things happen and they are usually things that you will not like.
Nope — on this issue, I side with the Greens.
Maybe releasing a GM variant is a bad idea, maybe not. In any case, the “greens” are always against any solution that benefits people, whether it harms critters or not. (Note that caribou congregate around pipelines in the winter for warmth and yet the “greens” still try to make pipelines an issue of “people vs caribou”.)
The “greens” are against DDT. They are against biological solutions to killing mosquitoes. They are against anything that protects the lives of people.
So go ahead, say you are against GM mosquitoes, but I would be wary about saying you side with the Greens. I doubt that you really do.