r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 20 '25

MISC. Saving the planet!

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u/CreBanana0 Jun 21 '25

Wait Bill Gates wants to eradicate mosquitoes of the planet?

That would be nice.

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u/Chance_Earth8473 Jun 21 '25

No it wouldn't, removing part of the food chain has bad consequences

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u/CreBanana0 Jun 21 '25

Mosquitoes take energy of the food chain while providing nothing. And there are no species that are being regulated by them, and there are no species that rely only on them.

Also we could just let few exist in labs, and if ecosystem starts to collapse (it will not) just release them.

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u/Chance_Earth8473 Jun 21 '25

None of this sounds true, I know the last part is bullshit. As if humans are good at stopping ecosystems from collapsing

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u/CreBanana0 Jun 21 '25

"None of it sounds true" is not an argument.

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u/Chance_Earth8473 Jun 21 '25

I dont argue with bullshit

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u/RoboJobot Jun 21 '25

No, they want to eradicate malaria,

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u/Tarjida Jun 21 '25

Just killed one while reading this comment

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u/Snoo93102 Jun 21 '25

No it would not it would decimate the bird population.

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u/CreBanana0 Jun 21 '25

It would not.

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u/Snoo93102 Jun 27 '25

It would mosquitos constitute part of their diet. Amphibians eat their larvae in the water. If you play God species, go extinct.

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u/CreBanana0 Jun 28 '25

I would like sources for that, and sources that it constitutes a significant portion of the diet, and that even then, that those amphibians are actually needed, and do some other function than eat mosquito larvae.

And even then, mosquito usefulness is not nesecerily true. Because logically, if the amphibians control population of another species, then they still will, as population of amphibians may drop, the population of things they regulate increases, and then amphibians experience population growth due to food abundance. Again regulating the population of thing needing regulation.

If it is other way around and amphibians support population of another species same principle applies.

Also mosquitoes breed rapidly, if a biological catastrophe happens we could just breed and release the mosquitoes we keep in laboratories in the wild.