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While this is better than killing elephants, I still don't like it...
I mean, they're probably destroying a lot of Siberian ice to do this, so it might even have the same ecological impact as something like mining, I think
Just in general, mammoth fossils hold a lot of information that could tell us about the history of the local environment of those areas or new insights into the creatures' lives as well. Also it's not like more of this finite resource is still being produced or anything.
Yeah. Permafrost has a lot of carbon stored in it. The more digging humans do, the more is released into the atmosphere.
It also starts a chain reaction and causes more to melt.
Defrost the extinct zoonotic infections, can’t wait!
What keeps us from farming elephants? People already farm sturgeon for caviar.
Primarily I think people just don’t like it, they’re one of the smarter animals (I don’t know why we overlook the intelligence of pigs) and by all accounts quite sensitive and gentle.
I assume if we could farm them then we would have, they’ve been used for entertainment and militarily for thousands of years. Maybe with our technology we’d have a better run, but then we’d be confronted with point 1.
Do zoos count as farming though?
did you also read about the woolly mammoth because of the pyramids?
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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