Counter example being nuclear power to global warming.https://twitter.com/ImHardcory/status/1157651695016534016 …
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And exterminating mosquitoes that bite humans to stop the spread of malaria.
Who's against this politically? Doesn't seem tied to any ideology.
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We don't know what it would do to our ecosystem. Maybe it's safe, but we don't know. Check out the four pests campaign by Mao ze Tung. He tried to exterminate sparrows but it had unintended consequences. ( He also tried to exterminate mosquitoes)
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I think we can be as confident as we are of anything in the biological sphere that exterminating a small number of species of mosquitoes wouldn't do anything as bad as malaria. Mao's stupid attack on the four pests would have been justified if it eliminated malaria.
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Lots against it. I suspect, but can't prove, that the left is mostly against it because of their desire to not disturb mother nature more than we have to. It would seem correlated with a belief that GMO and geo-engineering are not acceptable solutions to climate change.
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They're against it, but I don't think that's why.
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