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Lets say a species is extinct. By trying to bring the species back, are we doing them any favor? Somehow sounds more like something that humans would do out of
by option_greek 5y ago
Lets say a species is extinct. By trying to bring the species back, are we doing them any favor? Somehow sounds more like something that humans would do out of vanity than to serve any real purpose.
On the other hand trying to save species that haven't gone extinct makes sense as you are trying to protect their way of life.
- helsinkiandrew 5y agoThe reason species are going extinct is (generally) because their natural habitat/climate/food source are being destroyed - I'm not sure that preserving species so they can survive in some artificial zoo like ecosystem for our amusement achieves much - as you say the effort would be much better spent preserving the living species.
- chr1 5y agoWe are doing favour to us and to other living species. E.g. restoring mammoths would add a bulldozer that would trample trees in the north and bring the place back to its natural state of grasslands, that protects permafrost and CO2 stored in it see https://pleistocenepark.ru https://pleistocenepark.ru
- rpastuszak 5y agoInstead of preserving the existing endangered species, we try to bring back the ones we've already destroyed. Instead of trying to save this planet, we fetishise escaping towards a dead, uninhabitable rock.