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What animal could you delete from existence with a mostly positive outcome for the planet? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by bestusername@aussie.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And don't say humans, too obvious, too cynical.

I'd delete mosquitos.

The only negative effect I can think of would be fish won't have mosquito larvae to eat and their diet would have to shift.

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[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mosquitos are important pollinators and have a very important place at the bottom of the food chain.

[–] isame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely something else can be eaten. And there are many species of mosquito that do not eat human blood. I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.

Perhaps I'm under informed here.

[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we can nuke the species that does and still get by.

I think people in China had similar ideas about sparrows... Nature is immensely complex and I can't think of a single instance in which human Intervention improved anything at all

[–] isame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair. I'm entirely uninformed on the sparrows but I do understand nature is an endlessly complex system which we do not and probably can not ever truly understand. Not trying to be absolutist.

But I do wish death on every blood sucking mosquito.