“Killing the moths” by Bella

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)

This post was partly inspired by, and shares some themes with, this Joe Carlsmith post. My post (unsurprisingly) expresses fewer concepts with less clarity and resonance, but is hopefully of some value regardless.

Content warning: description of animal death.

I live in a small, one-bedroom flat in central London. Sometime in the summer of 2023, I started noticing moths around my flat.

I didn’t pay much attention to it, since they seemed pretty harmless: they obviously weren’t food moths, since they were localised in my bedroom, and they didn’t seem to be chewing holes in any of my clothes — months went by and no holes appeared. [1] The larvae only seemed to be in my carpet.

Eventually, their numbers started increasing, so I decided to do something about it.

I Googled humane and nonlethal ways to deal with moth infestations, but found nothing. There were lots of sources [...]

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 25th, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ax5PwjqtrunQJgjsA/killing-the-moths

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.