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What is the point, the whales are here today, we are destroying them and their entire habitat, Why would we clone them in 100 years ? We don’t care for the wha
by bamboozled 6y ago
What is the point, the whales are here today, we are destroying them and their entire habitat, Why would we clone them in 100 years ?
We don’t care for the whales we have now.
- keiferski 6y agoAs I said, > Not to take away from any conservation efforts to reduce or reverse these extinctions, Presumably one reason the loss of species is bad because it lessens biodiversity. If extinct species could be re-introduced in a more amenable future, then that would be a good thing, no?
- Gravityloss 6y agoWhat amenable future? I guess a thousand years from now?
- keiferski 6y agoCertainly not that far ahead. Widespread green energy and space travel is probably 200-300 years away. Even then, on a human timeline a thousand years is nothing. We still have buildings that are 3x as old.
- pantalaimon 6y agoOnly if we can avert the collapse of the ecosystem and with it civilization.
- ant6n 6y agoWhat is „green energy and space travel“? Some sort of greenwashing spin on rocketry, one of the most energy intensive ways to travel?
- pilot_project 6y agoAnimals are not automatons. They socialize, depend on each other, and teach each other. They all have means of communicating. Essentially, they have cultures. If you were to introduce cloned animals into the wild after natural ones had died, there would be no other animals of their kind who could teach them how to do various things necessary to their survival, or teach them how to communicate. Moreover, there is no guarantee that any future environment would be more amenable. For most animals, we would have no idea what that meant, no way to measure it.
- aj3 6y agoIt's not just that a few species go extinct. Whole ecosystems change. In 100 years the environment might not be suitable for the species anymore (e.g. reintroduction of wooly mammoths would be a disaster today) due to global issues (temperature, co2, acidity/salinity), but also local issues such as losing food sources, breeding grounds or some other species already filling the empty niche.
- agumonkey 6y agothe 'we' in 100 years may feel differently though