To the editor: Testing environmentally pleasant strategies for controlling the scourge that's the disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquito must be lauded as an alternative of feared, as was the slant taken by the article on genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Although Aedes aegypti hasn’t but been an element for the unfold of illness in California, it might probably carry many illnesses. Permitting the unfold of that mosquito is like distributing weapons in every single place, then simply ready for the proper ammunition.
Most scientists working within the area assume the testing considerations are minor, and the plans in place to watch for them greater than satisfactory. Approval by the U.S. Environmental Safety Company for the testing took effectively over a decade with many hurdles. Suggesting that the EPA hasn’t been thorough approaches being disingenuous.
A pesticide-free, eco-friendly option to management such a probably harmful vector of illness could be superb. Hopefully the testing in California will likely be nearly as good because it was in Brazil.
Richard Inexperienced, Ventura
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To the editor: “The EPA stated it may shut down the experiment if issues are discovered.” When regulators make such statements concerning the launch of genetically modified bugs, reporters ought to maintain them to the next customary.
Shutting down an experiment means not doing it anymore. Undoing the harm from an experiment that goes unsuitable within the wild might be past human means.
Equally, to explain glyphosate-resistant crops as “making farming simpler” is irresponsible. Within the brief run, that assertion could also be true — however the value has turned out to be the creation of superweeds, which undoubtedly don’t make farming simpler.
The pandemic resulted from the experiment of people encroaching too far on nature. Then there’s the continuing experiment of introducing carbon into the environment at an accelerated fee. What number of extra experiments can we stand up to?
Susan Rakov, Santa Barbara
The author is director of the Frontier Group, an environmental analysis and advocacy group.
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