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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nobody wants to exterminate all mosquitoes. Just the ones that bite humans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that specificality really affects the argument. Any effort to reduce a significant amount of biomass is going to have untold amounts of consequences on an ecological scale.

Whether that's beneficial or not depends on who you're talking about.