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obsessed with florida’s invasive species crisis. let’s start with burmese pythons, which have obliterated the everglades: 99 percent of raccoons, 99 percent of opossums, 88 percent of bobcats gone. local rabbits and foxes apparently extinct. it’s time to introduce a gene drive.
i want to be perfectly clear, here: we should genetically modify burmese pythons in such a manner as they only produce fertile males and sterile females, then release them into the everglades. crash the population. start thinking about lion fish.
i actually love florida 
the overlap of “openly communist” and “believes humans should stop breeding” is close to 100 percent in the west, so actually think we’re fine here
I fell down this rabbit hole recently too! I proposed terminator drones for the invasive fish (Lionfish & Asian Carp).https://twitter.com/Goltra/status/1138156454693629952 …
Gene drives would be much more effective, but is the bioengineering sufficiently ready that we are comfortable with the set of potential unintended consequences?
yes. great opportunity to guide them larger faster smarter. Our next bio-weapon.
how does this make them larger, faster, or smarter? seems like the most prolific breeders (the most fit) would die out first???
we already do a lot of this. everglades are like 1.5 million miles, and we literally can’t hunt the pythons faster than they breed
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