Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "New outbreak of fire ants threatens agriculture and livestock" video.

  1. The option of last resort is a particularly scary technology called Terminator Genes, you pollute the gene-pool of species with a gene that destroys their fertility, but only after it has spread through the entire pool. There are a few other related methods that can be combined, ones that see a gene double its copies with every generation until the species suffers genetic non-viability. However such options are like using nuclear weapons, not without massive risks and potentially irreversible long term consistences.
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