• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not advocating for restoring the mammoth, but this is a dangerous line of argument.

    With climate change and ongoing mass extinctions, many current species are or will soon be in the same situation that re-introduced mammoths would be—and you could use the same argument to say that trying to preserve them is cruel so we should kill off any current species facing environmental stress.