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Can we not resurrect this absurd topic? There's a lot of low-hanging fruit we can harvest in terms of reducing our damage to existing species.
by asciimo 9y ago
Can we not resurrect this absurd topic? There's a lot of low-hanging fruit we can harvest in terms of reducing our damage to existing species.
- panglott 9y agoPerhaps it's overdiscussed here, but there are lots of important environmental lessons that are worth reflecting on.
- sitkack 9y agoI like the idea that we can really mess things up and then use technology to "undo" the damage. Pay it forward if you will. Maybe it could increase the technological velocity of the human race just enough to get us out of this mess.
- panglott 9y agoMore like, the loss is so enormous and consequential that even massive technological efforts cannot reverse it. I'm all for chestnut restoration and the Buffalo Commons and bringing back woolly mammoths and Carolina parakeets and passenger pigeons, but these are heroic efforts that are a drop in the bucket.
- sitkack 9y agoWe'll all have Carolina parakeets in cages and locally sourced Buffalo rugs while we terraform mars.