... It would be my great preference if they mostly culled from the top 1% ...
There's a slippery slope somewhere there ...
Maybe, just all of the enablers - accountant, lawyers, bankers, crooked politicians, talking heads, propagandists, etc.
But then your left with a species population that will exceed its resource limits in one generation. Alas.
The question is: Do mosquitoes as a species have to go extinct for that?
I think mosquitoes will do OK.
Mosquitoes constitute the
family Culicidae. There are 41
genera of mosquitoes, containing approximately 3,500
species. Human malaria is transmitted only by females of the
genus Anopheles. Of the approximately 430
Anopheles species, while over 100 are known to be able to transmit malaria to humans only 30–40 commonly do so in nature. Mosquitoes in other
genera can transmit different diseases, such as yellow fever and dengue for
species in the genus
Aedes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mosquito_generaThe technique, called gene drive, was used to selectively target the specific mosquito
species An. gambiae. The CRISPR–Cas9 target genes they chose is specific to each
species. Unless the gene was conserved across multiple species it could not be passed on to a different mosquito species.
It would also require inter-species sexual reproduction which is usually a non-starter.
Humans on the other hand ...