Out of the UK...Dame Jenny Harries spoke up over climate change/global warming and made the statement that UK changes will come....bringing in Dengue Fever, Yellow Fever, Malaria, etc. All of this...within 20 years, by her analysis.
I'm not a mosquito 'expert'....although I've lived in such climates for five years of my life (Louisiana and Panama).
You need a fairly warm and robust heated environment, with wetness and humidity.....for mosquitos to expand out and be a problem.
That level in the UK? It's such a radical suggestion...that most Brits just started laughing when they heard the mosquito threat.
But I looked at this from the prospective of what existed in Panama and Louisiana. We had 'fogger-trucks' that would drive through both rural and urban areas...at leas once a week....to control the mosquito population. It's not rocket-science. I'm pretty sure if things went down this path....you'd spray (unless you were even more 3rd-worldish than Panama).
But this is the current problem in selling climate change. You state that 'giant worms sixteen feet long' will come to exist, or some 60-pound cockroach will develop....then immediately some news people give the threat coverage. One person out of four will take it serious, and continue the trend...until kids readily believe in the 'big worm' idea or the 60-pound cockroach threat.
We live in a world of misinformation being dumped daily, and it's a miracle that we've survived to this point.
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