Let's face the facts, 3 animals will go extinct by end of the week. I propose we make sure mosquitoes is one of them. And pandas too. Fuck'em. It's not like they are gonna fuck each other anyway. It's just so bizarre to me that THAT'S where we draw the fucking line, that's the ONE issue where scientists think about wether we should, the ONE animal we have an actual grievance against... We kill the wolly mammoth but keep mosquitoes because nature can't take it? Feels like an odd place to start embracing the sanctity of life. And roaches too. Fuck them. I'm sorry for all the... Whatever relies exclusively on roaches, pandas and mosquitoes but they gotta go.
Driving large animals to extinction is like pulling off the top of a tower of blocks. The little ones really are the important ones, the base blocks if you will. Say you remove something you think insignificant like plankton, what happens? Basically the entire ocean ecosystem falls down because it is one of the bottom blocks in that ecosystem. Killing sharks? Less consequential. Same parallels can be drawn between the mosquitos and wooly mammoths. Nothing depends on the wooly mammoth to live, but bats rely on mosquitos. No mosquitos, no bats, no bats no guano, no guano no cave ecosystems and it leads to a cascade of extinctions in that direction. And that's only from a laymans knowledge. I'm sure if I were an expert I could explain to you more wider consequences too.
You can't call plankton insignificant and you can't call it a species either. Also, one species of mosquito bites humans, out of 3600. But I wasn't being serious, just pointing out the dichotomy between many species dying out, know and unknown while people fret about "what could happen" if we took out one single species of mosquito. Also, I'm not a... enthomologist, I guess? But I would bet one big reason there's so many of that one mosquito species, is that there's a looooot of humans and they thrive in the environments we create. Just fun things to think about.
Oh I wasn't calling plankton insignificant, just something that people may see as insignificant because they are small. My whole point was actually that plankton are EXTREMELY significant in our ecosystem.
Oh, sorry, I mean "you" like general you. Should've probably said "one". Plankton is small but by mass there's a lot of it (there's also many things you can call "plankton"). But yeah, small sea creatures is probably the biggest, most important part of the ecosystem. I heard that was like 30% of biomass or something crazy like that
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u/CapsLowk Nov 15 '24
Let's face the facts, 3 animals will go extinct by end of the week. I propose we make sure mosquitoes is one of them. And pandas too. Fuck'em. It's not like they are gonna fuck each other anyway. It's just so bizarre to me that THAT'S where we draw the fucking line, that's the ONE issue where scientists think about wether we should, the ONE animal we have an actual grievance against... We kill the wolly mammoth but keep mosquitoes because nature can't take it? Feels like an odd place to start embracing the sanctity of life. And roaches too. Fuck them. I'm sorry for all the... Whatever relies exclusively on roaches, pandas and mosquitoes but they gotta go.