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So what's next after the mosquitoes?
Bed bugs? Cockroaches? Lice? Rats?
The proposal doesn't kill any individual mosquito. It prevents new mosquitoes from getting born. It's vegan friendly in that sense.
A vegan-friendly genocide of a species is an interesting concept X-D
To be fair, I hit "I don't care" for anything that I didn't know what it was (and I couldn't be bothered to look it up). I expect that I was not the only one to do so.
In one sense this skews the results, but in another sense it's still fairly actuate, since, realistically, people don't care about species they've never heard of.
I'm thinking schistosoma haematobium, schistosoma mansoni, or hookworm. Those are what SCI is working against, which is one of GiveWell's top-rated charities. They're the only animals besides mosquitoes that I've been told harm humans in an Effective Altruism context.
All are more difficult to target. Breeding a gazillion male rats that can't produce offspring is harder than raising corresponding number of mosquitos.
Ignoring implementation difficulties, do you see any problems with a progression like that?
According to Wikipedia out of over 3,000 species of lice 3 are classified as human disease agents. I see no problem getting rid of those three species.
Bed bugs certainly have no business being in human rooms, but I don't know much about them. I won't miss them.
Cockroaches on the other hand don't harm humans. They might not look nice, but I don't see them as problems. As far as rats go, I don't think they have a place in human cities I would prefer a canalisation system designed in a way that rats don't have a place.
I don't have an issue with rats outside of human cities.