inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoMosquitoes are a choice: the technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already existsworksinprogress.coexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoOk. You can take decades if you have a systematic plan with data collection, time lines, expanded test beds, and reviews of emerging relevant science. But sitting on your hands for 15yrs isn’t very productive.
minus-squarechrash0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agothey did mention doing harmonization studies, which is my biggest worry: cascading ecological effects. the impetus can’t be “oh well they haven’t done the full studies so i guess we just full send and see what happens”.
Ok. You can take decades if you have a systematic plan with data collection, time lines, expanded test beds, and reviews of emerging relevant science. But sitting on your hands for 15yrs isn’t very productive.
they did mention doing harmonization studies, which is my biggest worry: cascading ecological effects.
the impetus can’t be “oh well they haven’t done the full studies so i guess we just full send and see what happens”.