Although he sees little possibility of short-term change, he is urging a more tightly controlled application of the law, which is often used to settle worldly scores.
So, the researchers concluded that the aphids do not adapt to short-term changes in the colony via a reduction of clonal mixing (an increase in soldier reproduction).
Smith posits that only government legislation in the wake of a climate "catastrophe" would bring any short-term change, and the only alternative is the continued gradual rise in fuel prices.