ChristianKl comments on Fighting Mosquitos - Less Wrong

17 Post author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 11:53AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 16 October 2014 04:46:28PM 3 points [-]

You're not allowed to kill members of an endangered species. You could try killing them all off before the paperwork gets through, but I suspect that wouldn't go over very well.

It seems like it would be easier to start with Africa, where the species is dangerous to humans and killing it off is more reasonable, and then try to convince other countries to use the technology just to reduce annoyances.

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 October 2014 04:57:11PM *  1 point [-]

I would guess that there are bio-safety laws besides the endangered species list that come into play when you do interventions on that scale.

Even if laws on the books don't already exist paperwork can be fast if the bureaucracy things you are messing with them. You need the buy in of the power that be.