3 ms·
I love the climate change angle to justify de-extincting the mammoth. That's a stretch.
by Flatcircle 3y ago
I love the climate change angle to justify de-extincting the mammoth. That's a stretch.
- spacecadet 3y agoYeah, cringe really. Wait for it to fail and they go extinct round 2 + it really fucks that ecosystem. This screams laking of robust externality thinking.
- trilbyglens 3y agoSeems like it's all just window dressing on "because we can"
- brutusborn 3y agoSince climate change is so hard to model it has basically become a synonym for ‘undesirable environmental event.’ This is why things like fires started by power lines are ‘caused by climate change’ and why any research that is related to the environment can be justified by ‘helping solve climate change.’ Like adding ‘machine learning’ to a project, it’s a buzzword that helps raise interest and cash. No rational justification required! Tenuous conjecture is welcome because it is so easy to justify and is so hard to argue.