Reviving Extinct Species- De-Extinction
Is reviving extinct species the best idea for the worlds climate?
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Background- The notion of brining extinct species back to life (de-extinction) has hovered at the boundary between reality and science fiction for more than two decades. The only successful experiment was the birth of a baby bucardo on July 30, 2003 (a type of goat like species that was killed off by the human race). Though the animal died 7 minuets after birth do to the lungs not functioning properly this gave all scientist faith in being able to one day revive the wolly mammoth by 2017.
In favor for reviving extinct species- Since witnessing those fleeting minutes of the successful clone's life scientist like Fernandez- Arias, the head of the government of Aragon's Hunting, Fishing, and Wetlands department states that he has been waiting for this moment where science would finally catch up and the human race might gain the ability to bring extinct species back.
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Against de-extinction- Stuart Pimm states in his article for National Geographic that there is nothing involving real-world realities of habit destruction of the inherent conflict between the growing human population and wildlife survival. Pimm thinks that to deepened on biotechnology to repair the damage to the planet that it would be extremely harmful for two political reasons. Paul R. Ehrlich also states in article, Environment 360 "De-extinction thus seems far-fetched, financially problematic, and extremely unlikely to succeed on a planet continually being vastly transformed by human actions"
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Thesis- Although it could change the next generations view on the natural wild life world, the on going advances the human race faces dose not come into favor with bringing back what we once destroyed and what we could destroy again.