Could that have side effects of its own? Yes, but because of the diseases they carry mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal.
We featured a report a couple of years ago that explored how elephants in the African nation of Botswana were responsible for scores of human deaths every year.
And that year, the wet-bulb 36 events in India, in Southeast Asia and in the American Midwest killed so many more people than the first pandemic that it was made clear to everyone things simply had to change.
We were, and I asked you which disaster you thought caused most deaths and you said you thought maybe earthquakes, which was the right answer, which is why these new ideas to save lives are so hopeful.
They also reported that eating two servings a week of red meat or processed meat - but not poultry or fish – was linked to a 3% higher risk of all causes of death.
One common way to measure that danger is to compare the number of deaths a type of energy has caused, like through accidents, or premature deaths from pollution, with how much energy it provides.