No, really.<\/p>\n

And the Denver Post<\/em> doesn’t seem to have any answers.\u00a0 In a 760-word article about the problem, insecticides, the one thing that actually killed the bugs, are dismissed because the bugs seem to have mutated around them.\u00a0 And we are told, “get over it,” rather than invent new pesticides.<\/p>\n

Bedbugs are easy.\u00a0 The bite, cause welts, and they hurt.\u00a0 But they don’t actually carry disease.\u00a0 Mosquitoes carry disease, and millions have died because we won’t spray them in Africa, either.<\/p>\n

They’re also more invasive and troubling than coyotes, another old-new urban pest that the local authorities tell us we can’t do anything about, although we did something about them for decades.<\/p>\n

Silent Spring<\/em> has been thoroughly discredited, but its effects in the public imagination live on, to our detriment.<\/p>\n

The point of civilization is to civilize, not to live in a higher-tech, but all-too-literal, state of nature.
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