Posted on 12/27/2018 6:03:21 AM PST by chief lee runamok
Per Bloomberg, Google has a new plan to eradicate mosquitoes worldwide. In an article titled Googles Parent Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes Worldwide, Bloomberg provided insight into Google parent company Alphabets plans to eradicate mosquitoes worldwide. The journalists spoke to a scientist at Verity, an Alphabet-owned life sciences unit.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
What could possibly go wrong?
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Bats will starve, plants will not get pollinated, crops will fail, people will die.
Okay.......................
And the bats will eat what?
Frogs? Toads? What could possibly go wrong. /s
Then there’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VdBztcEOdI - the humane way to catch & release houseflies.
Skeeters fill an environmental niche. Remove them and something else will fill the void, for better or (more likely) for worse.
They should do something useful like eradicating fire ants. My ankles are covered with bites, and one got me on the thigh near my crotch yesterday while I was driving. They’ve killed off most of the ground nesting bird’s nests.
Bring back DDT. That’ll control the mosquitos where malaria is a problem
We used to have a plan. It worked pretty well. Malaria was being eradicated. The plan was DDT.
And the Purple Martins?
Or, are they just going to apply permethrin over the whole planet?
...The article explains that Alphabets reason for wiping out mosquitoes isnt primarily humanitarian but rather earnings focused:
Verily guards its technology closely. But it stands to reason that if it succeeds in making mosquito control easy and cheap enough, it could have a lucrative offering on its hands: Many governments and businesses around the globe might be glad to pay for a solution to their mosquito problems...
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Google is all about the cash flow.
Google, can you go after ticks next?
LOL, Obviously Google has not checked with Rachel Carson.
Even though she's dead and burning in Hell, her Silent Spring Zombies will not allow it.
Hypocrisy... The very LAST thing Google cares about is protecting the human species.
I’m not sure why I would buy a machine that’s a catch-and-release for house flies. There’s probably enough outside that my plan of catch-and-kill isn’t going to upset the eco-system.
It might also eliminate all Democrats...oh wait, that might not be too bad then.
While they’re at it, I hope gene drive technology can also be used to wipe out blackflies, ticks, chiggers, fire ants, poison ivy, and dozens of other noxious pests.
“...they don’t seem to hang out in Phoenix.”
I didn’t know fire ants had that much sense.
I remember there being a study done of what would happen if mosquitoes were completely wiped out. The consensus seemed to be that there are a lot of midges and other harmless, non-biting flies whose maggots live in the water that would quickly move in to fill the vacant niche and keep the pond food chains going.
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