I strongly vote against increasing the number of people able to unilaterally decide that an arbitrary species should be extinct. I think there are already many thousands of such people, and I don’t want there to be millions.
(I’m less strongly opposed if the instruction manual were somehow specific to mosquitoes and completely useless for any other plant or animal.)
RE creating an instruction manual:
I strongly vote against increasing the number of people able to unilaterally decide that an arbitrary species should be extinct. I think there are already many thousands of such people, and I don’t want there to be millions.
(I’m less strongly opposed if the instruction manual were somehow specific to mosquitoes and completely useless for any other plant or animal.)
I guess it might be possible to repurpose the manual, but making mosquito species extinct isn’t the only possible method, e.g. https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/gene-drive-rescue-system-for-population-modification-of-a-malaria-mosquito .