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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And also irreversible is The decline of biodiversity. Once a species is extinct it won't come back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Guess we'll have to Jurassic park this shit but with Pandas

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've always wanted us to have a genetic Doomsday Vault, with the sequenced genome of every species. We can clone them from that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We are wildly far away from having the technology to do that. A single genome wouldn't provide the genetic diversity for a sustainable population. We would need hundreds or thousands of genomes for each species to ensure that non-related individuals could mate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

We absolutely have the technology, we just don't have the money to gather the data. Or we haven't chosen to allocate it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And to those who say "well, the Earth will bounce back": we're much closer to the end of Earth's ability to support life than to the beginning. Earth doesn't have endless time to evolve new kinds of creatures. We could be doing damage from which Earth's biodiversity never recovers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not a good argument... this is such a small blip, the earth has been much hotter and colder then now and will stabilize again before it's eventually destroyed.

To me, the better argument is simply: Wouldn't you like there to be humans or soem sentient beings that remembered you in the future? Maybe not you specifically, but the culture and art that you contributed to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right, Earth will be here, life will find a way ….. but cockroaches and jellyfish can’t read