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 “Google’s Parent Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes Worldwide,” Bloomberg provided insight into Google parent company Alphabet’s 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 ...
Then Chiggers.
With that being said, the worst biting insects I've ever had to deal with were the sand flies along the coast line of Honduras. While you can barely see them, their bites itch like heck and last for up to a month. On each of my vacations to Honduras, my legs and arms would be covered by bites once I got home. I'd rather get stung by a bee than bit by those things.....
“They are everywhere in Az too...”
Lived in AZ 20+ years & been to most parts of the state, and I’ve yet to see a fire ant (came here from Houston, so I know what they look like and way too much about how they sting).
Mosquitoes DO serve an ecological niche, a little factoid that the “environmentalists” would remind us of sharply if it affected any of thousands of other species.
But for this instance, because mosquitoes are “annoying” and are in fact a vector for a number of diseases, they must be totally eradicated, to the point of extinction.
Has nobody ever heard of a “cost-benefit” ration.
Honestly I don’t know much about that kinda stuff.
Still, this is the first I recall ever hearing the prospect of extinction of any species considered a good thing.
I haven't seen Africanized bees, either, though there are a few incidents every year.
Mosquitoes, we have. All too many, despite the dry seasons.
When I saw the headline, I thought Google's millennial operatives had come up with a new derogatory name for conservatives. :)
I am allergic also. The Fire Ants are not as prevalent but they are found in just about every geographic area in Az other than than the mountains where it is cooler. And tell you what... these purple hybrids will drop you to your knees with pain. I’m not sure these have even been classified yet, I have only noticed them the last 10 years as something different from all the others.
Didn’t someone mention to you when you moved here that everything in Az with either bite you, sting you, or poke you? And speaking of bites, of all the rattle snakes we have the “Mojave Rattlesnake-Crotalus scutulatus” is the worse of them all. 10-15 minutes and you are done for because their venom also contains a neurotoxin that shuts down the lungs.
I am in Northern Az and this species is green here so they are called the “Mojave Green”.
https://atomicpestcontrol.com/ant-pest-control-phoenix/
http://phoenixsnakeremoval.com/snakes-of-phoenix.php
Especially these danged seed ticks!
Yep...
That's why the lies about DDT began.
It was effective and they feared an increased third world population would mean that they demand the benefit of their natural resources.
President Ford got on board as he didn't like the global political implications.
Google will climb on board the eugenics agenda soon enough.
I have one word for them: kudzu.
The geniuses behind this idea have probably never heard of it.
There are several different species of Red Fire Ants.
Leftists only complain about "overpopulation" when white people have children. Just as they only complain about nationalist ideologies and religious beliefs when they're practiced by whites. The growth of the Third World at the expense of western nations and the demographic replacement of Americans and Europeans by Third World immigrants is at the core of the elites' agenda.
I was thinking of Lyme Disease, the scourge of the Northeast. Plus, the local ticks occasionally carry some harder to detect and cure diseases like babesiosis, a malaria-like parasite that can kill you.
We need to plant it up nawth and have our revenge!
Boil a large pot of water ... dump it on the mound.... it will get them to move at least a few feet... do it again. Cheap... environmentally friendly ... effective.
Birds and bats will suffer from loss of food
Borax......
Circle of life.
Crucial topic - Fight this!
The public is being denied Informed Consent for something that could go very wrong in the wild.
Biogen community is apprehensive as well (see below)
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should -
startpage.com search: CRISPR biogen risks
CRISPR is a gene-editing tool that’s revolutionary, though not without risks...
CRISPR is a revolutionary gene-editing tool, but it’s not without risk.
By Mark Shwartz
Is CRISPR Worth the Risk? | Yale Insights
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/is-crispr-worth-the-risk
Aug 21, 2018 ... The gene editing technology CRISPR has prompted both breathless ...
But in the article’s third paragraph, the newspaper added that the ...
CRISPR gene editing can cause risky collateral DNA damage:
Jul 16, 2018 ... Scientists studying the effects of the potentially game-changing gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 have found it can cause unexpected genetic damage ...
Xconomy: CRISPR Risks? Researchers Stoke Fears of Cancer in human cells...
Jun 11, 2018 ... Two papers published today in Nature Medicine are raising a new potential red flag with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing: Human cells that are ...
Study Suggests CRISPR Gene Editing May Have Unforeseen Side-effects
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/potential-dangers-of-crispr-gene-editing/
Jul 23, 2018 ... With the potential risk of genetic typos as a result of gene editing, here is what ... In a recently published Nature paper, researchers from the ...
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