RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
March 10, 2024 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2024 at 2:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 9, 2024 at 11:41 pm)Astreja Wrote: Organisms exist in ecological niches. Very often they go extinct because that niche is no longer available. I think it's ill-advised to bring a species back just because it's possible. Where is it going to live? Cruel to just stuff it into a zoo enclosure, and if you let it run wild it'll either die out again or unbalance the local ecosystem, displacing other species.
In the case of mammoths we wiped them out, that wiped out alot of other things, and very nearly wiped out those remaining species that had evolved specifically to them. Their absence is the reason for "unbalance" in the first place....that's one of the fascinating things about alot of north and south america when you dig in. What we perceive as some sort of balance of nature is no such thing. The wilderness is not wild. It's the effect of our own actions.
I think it's worth repairing what we can. We're going to use genetics to do all sorts of strange shit, either way. This is probably not the worst use I can think of.
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