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Is 4000 years long enough for that to be a concern? Humans haven't changed that much in 4000 years, probably most other species haven't either. I suppose 4000 y

• AussieWog93 3y ago
  4000 years should be long enough for another species to come along and occupy whatever niche the mammoths were in.
• lolinder 3y ago
  The whole premise of their argument is that the ecosystem is completely different than it once was. Humans are unchanged because we've been the primary changers, but the Arctic ecosystem would be unrecognizable to a mammoth: > The loss of these large cold-tolerant Mammoths over the past 10,000 years has stripped this ecosystem of the grasslands that once efficiently absorbed carbon. Instead, there are mossy forests and wetlands, which aren’t as helpful with combating rising temperatures. [0] It seems like the most likely outcome is the mammoths don't take. If they do take, it's pretty hubristic to assume that we'll get grasslands back instead of just ruining the ecosystems that do exist there now. [0] https://colossal.com/mammoth/ https://colossal.com/mammoth/