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I don't see much activity in trying to bring back recently extinct creatures. Neither around reconstruction or reintroduction of extinct ecosystems, aside from
by thriftwy 5y ago
I don't see much activity in trying to bring back recently extinct creatures. Neither around reconstruction or reintroduction of extinct ecosystems, aside from the Pleistocene park.
I can see people on HN deeply concerned about the Amazon or Indonesian ecosystems, but noone seems to be doing anything where they live.
- HPsquared 5y agoIt's easier to tell others what they should do, than to actually do something. People can convince themselves that with the level of interconnectedness, effort spent on messaging will have greater effect than actually taking action themselves (a single person). Of course when you're shouting into a deafening noise, it doesn't add much and the best approach is to actually do something, but of course the former option is easier.
- thriftwy 5y agoEveryone is a propagandist today, but there's no longer any audience. You don't have to be single - Pleistocene park is not a single person but rather an organization.
- hulitu 5y agoYou can't do much on a destroyed ecosystem ( see the past discussion about Thames). We are starting to live in a world with "forests" without animals, with only one insect which is eating the forest. In a world with rivers without fishes or with introduced species.
- thriftwy 5y agoThen maybe people who have already destroyed an ecosystem and can't restore it, stop givind advice (and push) to those who still have it. It sounds like a good idea but isn't.