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Practically speaking, is this the best time in history to revive a species that died out because of a warming client? This is like reinventing ice & inviting i

Practically speaking, is this the best time in history to revive a species that died out because of a warming client? This is like reinventing ice & inviting it to your pool party in the desert.

seabj0rn 6y ago
The argument is that the wooly mammoth actually helps counteract the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere: "When the herds of northern megaherbivores were killed off by humans ten millennia ago, Zimov says, the largest biome on earth, called the “mammoth steppe,” converted from grassland to boreal forest and tundra. In these days of global warming, thawing tundra is releasing greenhouse gases, whereas grassland fixes carbon." [0] There is a really great documentary about Stewart Brand, We Are as Gods, that also covers this project. [1] [0]https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_for_de-extinction_why_we_should_bring_back_the_woolly_mammoth https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_for_de-extinction_wh... [1]https://www.weareasgods.film https://www.weareasgods.film
- quelltext 6y ago
  How can one watch that documentary? Or rather, where did you?
  - epitactic 6y ago
    I had the same question - it appears the We Are as Gods documentary is not out yet. According to IMDB, it will be released in March 2021 at the SXSW film festival (March 16-20).
bananabreakfast 6y ago
Climate was a factor but not the primary factor in their extinction. Like the vast majority of all ice-age megafauna, they could not co-exist with the rapidly expanding human population and were driven from the land that sustained them and/or hunted to extinction.
avdempsey 6y ago
Check out the, serious, Pleistocene Park project: https://pleistocenepark.ru/ https://pleistocenepark.ru/ The basic argument runs like this: reintroduce still living species (and then megafauna), megafauna turn forests into grasslands (see what modern elephants do to trees), grasslands keep snow on the ground longer and contribute to a cooler climate.

Practically speaking, is this the best time in history to revive a species that died out because of a warming client? This is like reinventing ice & inviting it to your pool party in the desert.

seabj0rn 6y ago

The argument is that the wooly mammoth actually helps counteract the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere: "When the herds of northern megaherbivores were killed off by humans ten millennia ago, Zimov says, the largest biome on earth, called the “mammoth steppe,” converted from grassland to boreal forest and tundra. In these days of global warming, thawing tundra is releasing greenhouse gases, whereas grassland fixes carbon." [0] There is a really great documentary about Stewart Brand, We Are as Gods, that also covers this project. [1] [0]https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_for_de-extinction_why_we_should_bring_back_the_woolly_mammoth https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_for_de-extinction_wh... [1]https://www.weareasgods.film https://www.weareasgods.film

quelltext 6y ago
How can one watch that documentary? Or rather, where did you?
- epitactic 6y ago
  I had the same question - it appears the We Are as Gods documentary is not out yet. According to IMDB, it will be released in March 2021 at the SXSW film festival (March 16-20).

bananabreakfast 6y ago

Climate was a factor but not the primary factor in their extinction. Like the vast majority of all ice-age megafauna, they could not co-exist with the rapidly expanding human population and were driven from the land that sustained them and/or hunted to extinction.

avdempsey 6y ago

Check out the, serious, Pleistocene Park project: https://pleistocenepark.ru/ https://pleistocenepark.ru/ The basic argument runs like this: reintroduce still living species (and then megafauna), megafauna turn forests into grasslands (see what modern elephants do to trees), grasslands keep snow on the ground longer and contribute to a cooler climate.