So those little ****ers have been spreading their misery for at least 46 million years. There's no hope for us lot then.
Imagine if civilization crumbles, and our descendants, huddled in caves and trying to find enough food to eat, are all getting diseases from these things, and people look back at us and say "but they thought it wasn't ethical to kill mosquitos".
I often wonder if those mosquitoes don’t fulfill some strange yet essential role in that beautiful ecosystem’s continuation.
Would love to hear that no, we can safely eliminate them and all the other cool and cuddly ones will be fine. But with my luck…
Really though, I’d like to see better medical technologies to deal with illnesses.
Like for example choosing an island with mosquitoes (and far enough from other lands as to not be rapidly repopulated) eliminating them there and seeing what the effect is in the ecosystem?
I wonder if something like this has ever been tried.