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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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They could put Deep Woods Off© out of business, but this:could have some unwanted results in the wrong hands...a mosquito designed to quickly spread a genetic mutation lethal to its own species...Ben
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Even in the right hands---we have enough experience with introducing nonnative species with good intentions to then learn bad things we had no idea would even be an issue.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Get rid of the mosquitos and the bat population will be affected along with dragon flies and other species that eat them.
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I thought genetically altered mosquitoes were released in Florida with goal in mind to interrupt the breeding cycle and forestall the Zika virus.
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LV, this is only one species which carry malaria.
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