Astonishing stuff, Abiola reveals the misanthropic vision of anti-DDT environmentalist activists as paraded in the New York Times. This august organ seems to have some difficulty answering the question - Mosquitoes or People?:
Another value of mosquitoes, perverse to some, obvious to others, is that they "keep out the riffraff," meaning human beings. Concentrations of pests offer protection to wilderness areas. The tsetse fly, which causes livestock disease as well as human sleeping sickness, has kept humans away from some wildlife refuges and has been called "Africa's best conservationist." Of course, this view has been described by others as ecological imperialism.
"Ecological imperialism" wasn't the precise term I had in mind. I was thinking of something a little less euphemistic.
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