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1. We do not have any megafauna to introduce yet 2. If we find a method to restore mammoths, producing large enough number of these animals will take hundreds
by chr1 6y ago
1. We do not have any megafauna to introduce yet
2. If we find a method to restore mammoths, producing large enough number of these animals will take hundreds of years
3. the meat that we do not produce in arctic, is produced in tropics at the cost of destruction of much more diverse and useful forests.
But it also doesn't need to be "intensive" and can be free range.
- cameron_b 6y agoMammoth would be great, but a few that would work there could be Bison / Buffalo Polar - Grissly bear cross Horses Wolves Arctic ( Alaska ) paper from USGS - https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70115138 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70115138
- SyzygistSix 6y agoSo bring the Wooly Mammoth back from extinction? For the sake of the environment, of course.
- chr1 6y agoThere is a group actively working on this [1]. Most exciting part is the work on constructing an artificial uterus to gestate the embryos, which can be a first step for doing the same for people too. [1] https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/progress/ https://reviverestore.org/projects/woolly-mammoth/progress/