Wiping out cattle industry would have an absolutely gigantic & immediate effect on lowering greenhouse gas emissions & with that the catastrophic climate changes.
Grain of salt, but I’m pretty sure I saw this exact “wasteful science,” or at least this type of it, under attack by this administration/the DOGE machete, so that’d be why. Inability to think/connect dots and adamant anti science dogma.
Nah truth be told the factories that produce the sterile screwworms, in Panama and Mexico, didn’t have the capacity to breed enough sterile screwworms. They were producing like 1m/month and they actually needed 3m/month to stay ahead of it, something like that. Now production is ramping up but the invasion has been faster.
Wouldn’t even have to be that. It’s just the type of thing they love to target like the studying shrimp on a treadmill John Oliver recently exposed they love to trot out. The more ridiculous they can make it sound in a one liner, the worse they can paint it as government waste and stupid science.
Then…
Is there a reason we wouldn’t use sterile male flies before it even gets here? Or, you know, just keep them in international circulation?
Edit: Honest question, not snarky. I’m ignorant here.
Wiping out cattle industry would have an absolutely gigantic & immediate effect on lowering greenhouse gas emissions & with that the catastrophic climate changes.
Grain of salt, but I’m pretty sure I saw this exact “wasteful science,” or at least this type of it, under attack by this administration/the DOGE machete, so that’d be why. Inability to think/connect dots and adamant anti science dogma.
Nah truth be told the factories that produce the sterile screwworms, in Panama and Mexico, didn’t have the capacity to breed enough sterile screwworms. They were producing like 1m/month and they actually needed 3m/month to stay ahead of it, something like that. Now production is ramping up but the invasion has been faster.
Purposefully tearing everything down
The science includes gender (“male flies”), I could absolutely see the program getting cut just for that.
Wouldn’t even have to be that. It’s just the type of thing they love to target like the studying shrimp on a treadmill John Oliver recently exposed they love to trot out. The more ridiculous they can make it sound in a one liner, the worse they can paint it as government waste and stupid science.
Indiscriminate chopping always leads to unexpected results
As of 3 months ago, I thought we still were: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq60I5RSW8