Only locally. As for the bees, a small change could be very bad for us. Asian honey bees are undomesticatable, they do pollinate, but may be very hard to deal with in fields/gardens. There are so many insects that our controlling them in local areas will not be a large impact. I'd like to see this tech extended to rodents and pest birds. Insects and rodents eat more of our food than we do, one could argue that we have artificially inflated the population of many species. I think we have the right to locally defend our areas. I also think we need to reduce our population to about 4 billion.....

My point is that society remembers that sort of crap and it takes many years for the distrust to dissipate.

I stand corrected, they do pollinate. I'd still kill them all near me. It shouldn't really damage their population. Many are introduced here in Australia anyway. Perhaps it will apply selection pressure for mozzies that don't go near human habitation!

Many people are stupid, but it wasn't that long ago that doctors did pretend to treat black people so that they could observe how untreated syphilis develops.....

Er, it's pretty easy to drink 40 glasses of water over a week..... That's why I have a filter to block the F in my water. I brush with toothpaste and then SPIT IT OUT! Do not swallow F, it doesn't work to drink it and it may be harmful. F in water is an unmetered dose, they don't know how much you drink, concentration is not dosage. The CDC recommends against F water for those under 1 year. I'm also concerned about how f will concentrate in the food chain as it is added at all points in the production chain and then concentrated by cooking and processing.

Yes, they should plant this on a rotation with different varieties and using sprays on some fields.

Cool, need a volume knob though, for night time! Maybe they can vary the power to only blind the bug/damage the wings. Then it may be effective over a larger area too.

Put it up on high poles and allow it to only shoot down into the ground/fence and wear protective glasses when you must go out there. Or turn it off before going out. Farmers wear all sorts of PPE now, they're not going to mind new sunnies! Have to put up signs on fields/yards...... There must be frequencies that are eye safe.....

I don't think protecting our fields/homes will seriously damage the food webs over the whole range of the species. Besides, this will allow much reduced use of pesticides, benefiting the whole environment, and the farmers through reduced costs. We can also target pests of bees, we desperately need to protect our bees so that they can pollinate our crops. This system can target small hive beetle etc and directly benefit us.

Mosquitoes are not pollinators. They can and do harm us and often they're not native to the areas where they are biting us. Besides, we're not talking about eradicating them from their whole range, just killing the ones near us/our crops.

Just kill both sexes of the species we'd like to eliminate! Exterminate! There's no reason to be selective.

Interesting, thanks. I'm sure you're correct that feet will be dragged over reforms even with drastic unemployment and inequality. It may end up being settled over the barrel of guns.

No, I agree with rich0, it must be a level playing field, China gets to do things much cheaper than developed nations, so tariffs can be applied for their poor worker conditions and pollution. We are not willing to do what they do, so they shouldn't reap the benefits of cheap and dirty production. We should also carbon tax the hell out of their products as they get here on terribly polluting ships. Yes prices may rise, but at least more people would have decent jobs.

I agree about the credit, but more needs to be done on the supply side as well. We have insanely high house prices/rents, and they wonder why personal debt is so high and savings are low?! WTF?

Not everyone wants to or can start their own business. Real mode average wages have declined sharply since the 1980s. The system would work better if the wage/cost of living curves were more like they were in the 50s and 60s. Ultimately a civilized society is about benefiting society as a whole, not the 1%. We've been in places where 1% have everything, the fucking dark ages! Or you can see it in shithole countries around the world today where the rich live in luxury walled compounds. I don't want to go there! I don't want to live there. People will stand up eventually if the 1% wont share more evenly, they're setting up the system to only benefit themselves.