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A lot of people are like that when dealing with nature. Oh I don't want squirrels in my backyard, let me put some poison...

We really don't deserve a place on this planet

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That's a fine attitude for squirrels which are ultimately harmless, but wolves can attack people, although that's somewhat rare, not like bears which attack you every time.

Wikipedia says wolves are more likely to attack humans if they've been living around humans for a while - they learn that humans are viable prey, not that humans are harmless.

Climate change also kills people and we don't do anything about it

There is a lot not to be proud of about human behavior. Still.. one has to try to be a little positive about there being hope as hopelessness is contagious.

Bear attacks depend on the (sub)species. European brown bears are very shy and much less likely to attack people than wolves.

Finnish people traditionally respected bears but were not afraid of them. Historical records mostly tell of two kinds of bear attacks. Either children / old people herding cattle in the forest accidentally got too close to a bear cub, or adult men were hunting bears and something went wrong.

We have systems in Finland as well. We have detected Lynx a number of times. Later this year some systems will move to bear country.

same with mosquitoes, let's just spray or fog and kill all the other bugs too... including ones that kill mosquitos

I’ll argue mozzies are responsible for more suffering than humans any day of the week. They need to go. Lets just get our targeting good enough.

the good news is that if we can't figure out how to target them specifically soon, we'll have already killed all the side effects

... What do you think wolves do all day?

They mostly sleep and play all day. As anybody with a chonky dog at home can confirm.

And they provide premium ecological services all night that would be really expensive to cover by ourselves.

They kill and eat things. Brutally and sometimes primarily for fun. Unless you somehow consider yourself no longer an animal I'm not sure eradicating capable predators is deserving of 'no longer living on this planet'

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