Why the terrible wolves are “De-Excraft” wolves is a Trojan horse to hide the destruction of humanity of nature

With wildlife groups worldwide 73 % smaller On the average of 1970 and the large mammals lost from most of the world, it is certain that there was no better time to remove species? Colossal Bioscience Inc has claimed COLOSSAL BIOSCIENCES InC that it was recently by reviving the pulmonary wolf from Game of Thrones (a type that has also lived in our world, several thousand years ago).

Possible looks huge. Type in trouble? Get a high -quality genome and make it a keeping point, ready to restart when the environment improves. Didn’t you get there at the right time? It does not matter-you can use frozen remains in the frosty soil, or tafsan samples with the museums collection. Soon, even if you don’t have this, a dose of childish artificial intelligence, and you may be able to conclude some of this genome anyway. A little genetic engineering has a type of dead, ready to go.

What is the problem? Well, greatly everything. These are not the types that have been returned from extinction. It will not be very useful, and in fact you may not survive. The most disturbing of everything, such as Freiz and Protons, hidden in the hall before the red wedding, it’s a spirit of hidden cancellation in this “wolf” puppies that is likely to cause the greatest damage to biological diversity if it is established itself.

The extinction has not been reversed

The wonderful wolf was a very large meat animal that lived in the Americas about 10,000 years ago. Anatomatically, the great gray wolf, muscular, additional: the species alive today that everyone thinks when they say the “wolf”.

The two puppies revealed by the enormous biological sciences are not terrible wolves. They are gray wolves, with 14 genes modified to produce an animal that resembles what we believe is a bad wolf. In fact, only one of the 14 gene was directly from a severe wolf sample – others were genetic variables from the current gray wolf groups that were chosen to give material features that make engineering wolves larger and more white.

Over time, genes liberalization technology can increase the number of genes that can be designed in a host type, and increases the complexity of the features that are inserted. But it is not one of the types that are reviving, it is some of its properties that are borrowed by a type of today. It is like the claim that Napoleon returned from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.

The argument of this type of genetic engineering revolves around the idea that the new hybrid may be useful for environmental restoration. As a predatory doctor, And a wolf delirium In theory, it can bring the same revolutionary changes to ecosystems that re -introduce gray wolves to the Yellowstone National Park in the United States that caused the 1990s. In other words, an ecosystem is more complete, with evil wolves examined from deer so that the most complex habitats and biological diversification are thrived.

However, in the ecosystems in which the pulmonary wolf will rule, the gray wolf can fill the same role clearly (just as happened in Yellowston) without any unnecessary technology – if people only stop trying to shoot them and Exempt From the legislation of endangered species.

There is also a problem that captive education programs that seek to launch endangered species in the wild today regularly against: that new animals have no little idea or not an idea of ​​what to do or how to live in their new environment.

Immigration process, theatrical in the 1996 movie Fly away homeHe saw a dedicated team of pilots teaching endangered migratory birds how to pass North America by making them chasing a MicroGHT plane for thousands of miles. This is just one example of the necessary intensive training, which never guarantees to be successful. It is clear that it is difficult to train APEX predator for example – I will not volunteer in the “Introduction to hunting” session.

No quick repairs

The word “De-Extendation” is not only incorrect, but it seeks to reduce the uncomfortable truth of the biodiversity crisis: we know what causes extinction, and we.

Diets should destroy less habitats and use much less than protein than animals, wild and agricultural. Carbon energy systems should burn less, so that there are fewer deaths between species (including our types) in an attempt to adapt to higher temperatures and the changes they bring. To do these two things, our landscapes have to leave more space for nature, and many remaining more efficiently must be used to provide food, fuel and living space.

There are specific signs that we can achieve good on these promises: preservation works, for humans and other types.

But these changes require us to realize that some economic and political philosophies are no longer recovered. They need sacrifice by everyone and prepared by the wealthy and countries to pay money, commercial policy, intellectual property rights and energy supply, so that many poor and countries can flourish while avoiding the environmental damage caused by those countries rich in their history.

What motivates people to face these changes is the desire for justice, the need for care, and a motivation to make things better and recognize that although habitats can be restored at times, the extinction of species is irreversible and irreversible and that can only be avoided. This recognition is under threat.

The Trump administration is trying to nullify the endangered species law in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the wholesale review of legislation began to prevent the loss of biological diversity by targeting habitat regulations, in the preventive defense of the government’s need for “construction, construction,” in a desperate search for more economic growth. How useful is this if it is possible to avoid the risk of extinction with a simple “Don’t worry, we will pay for the disorder after that”?

There will be no terrible wolf, and even if there is one, we will not have any idea of ​​what it was (and do not do that). We will all pay in exchange for the wrong belief that extinction represents a problem in solving it, and that the usual global economy in the work that caused the extinction of the sixth collective was not great, because its losses did not actually die-once a temporary inconvenience of extinction that was no longer forever.

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