As cities adopt greener, more sustainable designs, there’s risk of a dangerous and unwelcome tenant moving in: mosquitoes. Researcher Cameron Webb explains what urban planners and the general public need to understand about mosquitoes — the deadliest animals on the planet — in order to avoid future outbreaks of disease carried by these pesky insects.
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Alberto Cruz
March 31, 2022 at 7:27 pm
First
galaktik cikölata
March 31, 2022 at 7:31 pm
use off
Prdgmshft
March 31, 2022 at 7:41 pm
Put ur money where your mouth is and test your idea in Africa or Alaska.
θ sin
March 31, 2022 at 7:48 pm
蚊は、人間にとって死の危険を齎す存在かもしれないが、水質汚染予防にもなるので、環境を取るか、蚊を取り除いてフラストレーションが貯まらないまちづくりを取るのかの二択だな。
Alien Alias
March 31, 2022 at 7:49 pm
This is really making my balls itch.
JL SEAGULL74
March 31, 2022 at 8:01 pm
Stop trying to play god, you have no way of knowing the ecological effects of doing this. I don’t like flees but if we get rid of them we will also get rid of Armadillos and hedgehogs that require flees to survive. What species will we eliminate from our cities because science cannot realize they are not GOD. You cannot create a worm but you still think you are god.
Science needs to operate on the notion that just because you can, does not mean you should.
Because a group scientists didn’t say no to the government years ago, we have Nuclear weapons and now the threat of extinction of humans all because scientists never questioned their actions beyond their abilities. Governments cannot build weapons without scientists, corporations cannot control our existence without science. Now we would still be dying of dysentery without science so its not all bad, but this is where scientists need to ask, SHOULD WE instead of just answering CAN WE.
deliciouspops
March 31, 2022 at 8:05 pm
I suppose, that is unpopular, but it is how i feel too. Why, people, do you believe to be privileged, when ending up miserable.
deliciouspops
March 31, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Okay, fan is the best part.
Neoshaman Fulgurant
March 31, 2022 at 8:15 pm
Only fan
Alexandra McLeod
March 31, 2022 at 8:09 pm
This is hopelessly unfortunate. What a bunch of weak arsed manipulators we are becoming .
आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes
March 31, 2022 at 8:22 pm
So, how _do_ we “Design Mosquitoes Out of Cities”? Did I miss the point?
l0gic23
March 31, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Learn what’s needed for bat boxes and deploy them if you can or encourage others to.
Don’t let water stagnate or seal it up.
आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes
March 31, 2022 at 9:30 pm
@l0gic23 That’s “Design mosquitos out of my back-yard”. I was expecting the “city-design” protocol to be a bit grander.
Kevin VanGelder
March 31, 2022 at 10:20 pm
They’re just coming up with random excuses to talk about the climate change myth…
namesurename
March 31, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Pungitius alchetron (just in case, proven bio green way, size of the fish itself is easyly regulated locally, not sure if will hold with your local predators)
Remy Lebeau
March 31, 2022 at 8:37 pm
We need to stop trying to live with the pests and find a way to make the food chain work without them. Or at least science should be able to make trap pools of water that attract the laying of eggs but have something that will kill off the eggs and eventually almost eliminate mosquito populations.
B Z
March 31, 2022 at 8:57 pm
Says the guy who owns Halliburton Stock 😂
Nothisispat 9287
March 31, 2022 at 10:30 pm
I freel like this is an April Fools joke and by this point im too afraid to ask
muktar ajibola
March 31, 2022 at 10:40 pm
What I got from the video is this: We need trees for a greener climate and trees need water. Mosquitos also need water. The water in cities are not clean and therefore causes more mosquuitos. A good solution is to develop strategies that can maintain the purity of the water.
I enjoyed the talk. Good points made 👍🏾
Jake Baker
March 31, 2022 at 11:28 pm
Are mosquitoes the media or offers?
I only ask because this video has followed me everywhere.
Dan Miller
March 31, 2022 at 11:39 pm
In Florida we were taught that standing, stagnant water breeds mosquitos. Dumping water out of upside down garbage can lids, pots or anything collecting rain was encouraged. Also, to avoid stagnant water, it was recommended to keep stagnant water agitated with bubblers, recirculators, etc. Can Ozzies install little electric bubblers in their rain water catchers? Maybe encourage manufacturers to include them along with screens? Also, the natural gas powered Mosquito Magnet™ was incredible at catching liters of mosquitos in backyards in short order.
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Bar Room Buddha
April 1, 2022 at 1:29 am
Maan, this video is a mosquito🖕
Dovydas
April 1, 2022 at 1:54 am
Could we design them out of forest preserves too so people could actually hike the trails and enjoy it?
shramo
April 1, 2022 at 2:57 am
Oh yeah, a fuckin aussie talkin bout mozzies
Pizza-Faced Turbo-Virgin
April 1, 2022 at 3:26 am
Drinking game!
challenge difficulty; give up before starting.
Take a drink everytime Cameron says the word, “mosquito”.
you won’t have enough time to burp.
Scogin
April 1, 2022 at 5:22 am
But bats eat mosquitos… What will bats eat if… Never mind, I just remembered. I don’t know any bats and bats carry diseases (One particularly nasty one that we are all familiar with) and, I hate mosquitos, so…
Mpamizo Emmanuel
April 1, 2022 at 5:49 am
The title is misleading.
xavier
April 1, 2022 at 6:11 am
We can put more trees
Jovana_Branka
April 6, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Plant them yes!
Tony Logan
April 1, 2022 at 7:15 am
How do we design Humans out of Forests?
Barboron
April 1, 2022 at 7:34 am
Why was this video reuploaded?
Raghav Sharma
April 5, 2022 at 5:44 am
Because in India we have trouble spotting this video
Idaho Potato
April 1, 2022 at 11:10 am
Problem
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April 1, 2022 at 1:04 pm
The answer is at 8:30
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April 1, 2022 at 3:05 pm
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April 1, 2022 at 3:07 pm
John 3:16 💝
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Mr. Cool
April 1, 2022 at 3:52 pm
If you design highly functioning ecosystems, you will inevitably create dragonfly habitats which are the natural predators of mosquitoes.
Create highly functional urban ecosystems. Stop fighting against nature and nurture it. Will we ever learn this critical lesson?
atenas80525
April 1, 2022 at 4:05 pm
Didn’t really live up to the title
Samuel Zev
April 2, 2022 at 10:44 am
Good presentation of the solutions but he should look at how singapore handles its mosquito problem, they capture both males and female mosquitoes and inject them with a genetic virus that causes both sexes to be infertile and if they do lay eggs, the offspring will havr defects and die in a matter of minutes
Invox
April 2, 2022 at 11:24 am
Frogs, toads, birds, and other animals that eat mosquitoes. If we balance their integration into OUR enviroment that might work.
Lucas Olivieri
April 3, 2022 at 1:52 am
Just use CRISPR and drive them extinct ffs. We can do it to so many damn species. Do it to the freaking monsters.
Dan-Mariana Watson
April 3, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Seemed like the solution, according to this talk, is the same as what we already knew .. find ways to keep water from being accessible to them and use bug spray.
Bhagwati Pant
April 3, 2022 at 1:57 pm
How about genetically modified mosquitoes being used to wipe out the entire species? I think work is on for that.
Tsz Fung Li
April 3, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Maybe someday we can genetically modify them to dislike smell of human. Then we can continue without killing them
Mitchell Downs
April 3, 2022 at 3:19 pm
I always find it odd to see the like counter turned off 🙃
J R
April 3, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Mosquitos are one of the species that will create a lesser impact on the environment if they disappear from the face of the Earth. So why don’t those clever scientists make them disappear for good? Because they are not that clever.
Stormrunner002
April 4, 2022 at 12:48 am
Those Mosquitoes are the plankton of the night skies.
Stop killing the bats
Raghav Sharma
April 5, 2022 at 8:02 am
Thumps up if you are from India.
Andy Christou
April 5, 2022 at 4:48 pm
you have it all wrong, the mosquitos are natures defense against blood disease.. thats why they specifically land on places.. remove the blood disease from humans and the mosquitos will go ( or they wont bite you)
Jovana_Branka
April 6, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Can we use mosquitos as extra protein. I was thinking about the fact that they might be food. You want to kill them eat them. I am hungry