The End of the Barnum & Bailey Circus

[Speaker to Animals]

Seriously, if I were elected president, investing in all things DDT-related would be a good move.

[Montegriffo]

Population control?
I dunno, ask your God. He put them here for a reason didn't he?

You're being sanctimonious, Montez. And more than a bit presumptuous.

Why don't you ask *your* God?

Gaia says everything has a purpose and not always for the benefit of mankind.

[Fife]

Fuck Gaia, fuck mosquitoes.

[Montegriffo]

Gaia moves in mysterious ways, her wonders to perform.

[BjornP]

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/ ... 6432a.html

Every day, Jittawadee Murphy unlocks a hot, padlocked room at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, to a swarm of malaria-carrying mosquitoes (Anopheles stephensi). She gives millions of larvae a diet of ground-up fish food, and offers the gravid females blood to suck from the bellies of unconscious mice — they drain 24 of the rodents a month. Murphy has been studying mosquitoes for 20 years, working on ways to limit the spread of the parasites they carry. Still, she says, she would rather they were wiped off the Earth.

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Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When it comes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", says insect ecologist Steven Juliano, of Illinois State University in Normal.
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"They don't occupy an unassailable niche in the environment," says entomologist Joe Conlon, of the American Mosquito Control Association in Jacksonville, Florida. "If we eradicated them tomorrow, the ecosystems where they are active will hiccup and then get on with life. Something better or worse would take over."

The priesthood of Gaia has spoken...

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/ ... 6432a.html

"If we eradicated them tomorrow, the ecosystems where they are active will hiccup and then get on with life. Something better or worse would take over."

What's worse? Spiders? Shit, it's prolly spiders huh. Flying godamn spiders.

I'm not into this at all guys.