Mosquito Extinction
Synopsis:
Google parent company Alphabet has its life sciences division focused on forcing a mass mosquito extinction. In the California city of Fresno, researchers are setting loose sterilized mosquitos
Alphabet, Googles parent company, has pointed its gaze at mosquitos as the latest intentional manmade mass extinction. Googles life sciences branch has initiated the project in the city of Fresno California where their researchers are breeding and releasing sterilized mosquitos that could help wipe out the larger population. The intention of the project is to attempt to hinder the spread of diseases such as the Zika Virus, Malaria, and The Dengue Virus.
Health and life sciences has been a growing focus amongst Alphabet for some years now. This market is engaged in seeking partnerships amongst wearables companies such as Fitbit, and Verily, which was originally considered a moonshot now is a full division within Alphabet around 2015 amongst a number of departments that Google Aimed to rebrand. Verilys goal is as follows: "Verily is developing tools to collect and organize health data, then creating interventions and platforms that put insights derived from that health data to use for more holistic care management. We have three guiding product design principles: start with the user, simplify care, and lead on security and privacy."
Google is not the first in the recent years to target insects as tools or threats to be eliminated. DARPA in 2017 deveoped a project called insect allies, whos mission statement is as follows: "To develop such countermeasures, Insect Allies performer teams are leveraging a natural and efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. The program’s three technical areas—viral manipulation, insect vector optimization, and selective gene therapy in mature plants—layer together to support the goal of rapidly modifying plant traits without the need for extensive infrastructure. Since the start of the program, Insect Allies teams with expertise in molecular and synthetic biology have demonstrated mounting technical breakthroughs that are providing foundational knowledge in plant virus gene editing and disease vector biology from which the program will continue to build. "
It is no secret as of late that our Honey Bee population has been going extinct. However, this was semi-unintentional as glyphosates found in pesticides produced by monsanto have been found to target enzymes in Honey Bees that promote healthy gut bacteria. Monsanto had no doubt that their concoction was attributing to diminishing bee populations, in fact, they as a company stand to benefit from it. It was the population of the countries that implimented the pesticides that detested accusations for near a decade of such a correlation. It should come as no surprise that Bayer, the company who recently bought Monsanto, has a similarly harmful ingredient to the bees within their own pesticide; Neonictonoids. "a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine".
As the citizens found it hard to grasp that these companies would cause such a negative impact on our ecosystem, that time is over. going forward, theres no excuse for the same benefit of the doubt. The fact is, with their extinction, we have made our species essential for the preservation of the current eco system essentially by being the only secies with the capability to synthetically replicate the polination habbits of the Honey Bee. Something that should have never happened. We now have the Most technically advanced Defense Contractor as well as the Largest Tech company globally investing considerable, Time, Effort, and money towards eliminating more insects from our fragile ecosystem.
it has been observed that only Female Mosquitoes suck blood; The males consume necter as their #1 source of sustinence, making them one of our most valuable polinators. Their perseverence as a species should be high on our prioritieswhen it comes to preserving the earth and its eco system. for now it seems that their preservation has been intentionally removed from the list of priorities all together..
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6) https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-dengue
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