Why New Zealand is releasing a rabbit-killing virus
Maybe it will actually help, but self-righteousness of the proponents of such methods never ceases to amaze me. It actually makes the plots of all these stupid sci-fi movies seem somewhat plausible. You know, the movies where some technocratic forces (usually military or research group) always do something so obviously stupid, that it just couldn&#x27;t happen in real life, with security protocols and all. You know what happens next. It&#x27;s borderline hilarious and terrifying.<p>I mean, first you (well, your grand-grand-…-grandfathers) introduce new species to the land. They are absolutely harmless, you have plenty of them at home and would like to have even more. What can go wrong? When you learn the answer, you try to fix your fuck up while your parents don&#x27;t see and introduce some more new species that apparently fought off these first species back at home. After all, you are smarter now, you know biology and stuff, you know how one animals eat the others and can play with this stuff knowingly. Well, this does the trick, your first little fuck up gets eliminated, but now that second animal dominates the whole new continent and overall situation got just much worse. You try this several times and it gets trickier every time, but you are so sure of yourself, so educated and smart that you just cannot let go, you are sure you can fix it <i>this time</i>. So you artificially construct a virus to wipe off the harmful population. It seems to help at first, but soon they get immune to that virus and really good at spreading this virus around. Then the virus mutates. Scrolling forward, there&#x27;s no single kangaroo left alive on the continent, rabbits now can produce nuclear weapons and you still have a new, final solution that surely will fix the situation this time. Like artificial kangaroo immune to radioactivity or something, idk…