A World Without Mosquitoes... finally!!!

Although some (including myself) might think that having a world without mosquitoes would be pure luxury, however after reading an article about this hypothetical theory makes me change my thinking.  Not that having no mosquitoes would directly effect humans, but it would greatly effect us with some of the fish and animals we consume dying off or becoming replaced.  The way it would effect us directly though is that current diseases would hiccup and get better for a short while until something new and possibly worse would come along.  Altogether having a world without these pesky insects although quite peaceful, could potentially irreversibly alter our ecosystem as we know it, and not for the better...

Along with reading this packet of information we also listened to a sixty second podcast.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=why-ecosystem-services-matter-09-02-05

What I got out of this podcast is not only are a lot of humans unaware of how fragile our ecosystem is in many ways, but also their lack of care.  At AHS I and a friend are the only recyclers in the school, meaning we take the small amount of recycles that people put in bins, sort it, and take it down to the recycling center.  I've always been keen on trying to make the world a better place in instances like this where something so simple as recycling can do so much.  Plastics are made up of materials that take up to 70,000 years to be created, and then are used once, and sent to landfills.  Things like this really make me angry at the world for not caring about since if they did they would start to take better care of something so precious that needs to be looked after.  I don't think people fully consider and understand all that the natural world does for us and itself, just as the podcast talks about.  Something that you may not think of like bees getting wiped out would hugely alter and effect everything in our ecosystem.  Bees account for pollination effecting the plants which contribute to photosynthesis and the air we breathe, effecting us... not to mention, no more honey! So if the population starts to pay more attention on maintaining a small ecological footprint, little by little small things can start to alter in a good way on Earth.