US startup Colossal Biosciences has announced plans to bring woolly mammoths, or animals like them, back from extinction and into the frosty landscape of the Siberian tundra.
Theoretically, this could help reduce climate change.
Mammoth-like beasts with thick fur and dense fat would in theory be able to survive the harsh polar climate of the Siberian tundra.
Critics have referred to such practices as “playing god” and accused scientists in favor of de-extinction of hubris.
A common worry is that bringing back extinct species, whose ecological niches may no longer exist, will upset existing ecosystems.
Furthermore, climate change is one of the great moral challenges of our time.
The melting of the Siberian permafrost is expected to accelerate climate change and exacerbate ecological disaster.
An illustration of an adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska, 17,100 years ago.
Let’s look at two ethical concerns related to de-extinction.
The first is that de-extinction could distract from more cost-effective efforts to protect biodiversity or mitigate climate change.
Some critics of de-extinction projects hold that while de-extinction may be an admirable goal, in practice it constitutes a waste of resources.
For instance, we inherit more than just DNA sequences from our parents.
And even if de-extinction programs are successful, they will likely cost more than saving existing species from extinction.
Some environmentalists argue once de-extinction becomes possible, the need to protect species from extinction will seem less urgent.
Yep,they’ve traveled ahead in time & got the word to not worry about right or wrong just do it?
I’m all for this but please don’t try to couch the arguments for doing this in climate change fear mongering.
Bring back the Woolly Mammoth.
Let’s (briefly) look this gift horse… err… Woolly Mammoth in the mouth.
The Mammoths retreated Northward with gross climate change, ultimately ending their flight and their species viability on Kotelnyy Island, North of the Arctic Circle.
MAYBE (just MAYBE) we should be “working” the problem: How to save our own Woolly Butts from the EXTINCTION EVENT in progress… Self-inflicted (in many ways).
I mean, ACTUALLY inducing Climate Change to open sea lanes over the pole, to save fuel costs when shipping OIL to-and-from MARKET-to-market… Something about that SMACKS of REDUNDANCY… MAYBE (just MAYBE) PSYCHOSIS.
Bringing back the Woolly Bully is going to help stall climate change!.
Let’s us look on the BRIGHT SIDE: Woolly Mammoth aside, This global heating PARADIGM is just a TRANSITIONAL PHASE, on the way to GLOBAL GLACIATION and another Extinction Event: We have met the ENEMY and HE is US.
Just the facts, Mam
The businessmen/PhD genetic engineers behind this nonsense might reread Gaia and see that climate change is one aspect of what James Lovelock was writing about
I just wish these geniuses would leave the fing world alone
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