The few forbid the many from mitigating the damage. They ban building sustainability. The many are then asked to pay the price.
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No.
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The staff of the NYT can bugger off and commit mass suicide if they like. The rest of us would actually like to solution something.
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My reply was on behalf of nonhuman conscious animals everywhere.
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I assume this is a thought experiment about Thanos dancing the Carlton, though, because anything that actually wipes out eight billion cosmopolitan generalists is not something they are going to like.
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Thank you for that mental image.
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Yes. Killing off a large group of people who don’t want to die is generally called genocide and it’s disgusting that this is a serious article that they’re printing.
How about we do better by them instead of committing large scale genocide?
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I never meant to say we should kill humans off. I was just looking at the damage humans have done to the planet, and concluded that, as a thought experiment, the rest of the biome might be better off without us. I’ve heard that some scientists think we’re in a sixth mass extinction, mostly caused by human activity.
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…as that human activity is directed by ignorant bigoted thieving rapists like Trump and other autocrats.
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Yeah, going off what @AndyHilmer noted, we’ve lived with varying degrees of connection to nature since human history started… the fact that the major problems we’re having are almost directly related to the capitalist system is pretty telling. We can very much live in a better balance with nature, because for much of our history we absolutely have done so.
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I’ll just leave this here
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I’m curious why you classify this news as bad science?
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Because they brought back a species that lived during the last ice age and now the climate is changing quite fast. Some scientists are claiming they can bring back Mammoths and woolly rhinos… Why?
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I too wonder why. I’m not convinced though that my failure to see any good reasons why means it’s bad science.
Maybe good discoveries will arise from it, as with other scientific advances? 
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Ok
You are right.
Bad use of good science. I´d be happy if they had brought back the Dodo…
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And maybe the passenger pigeon.
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Every so often someone will post a story in work chat like this saying “Hey, this is what one of our customers is doing!” And I’m excited about this because I found out today that they’re one of the institutions that I’m building software for.
My first thought was that some D&D players got together and said “You know what this world needs more of? Dire wolves. That’d be cool! Let’s make some!” and just went with it.
I’m not entirely sure the company isn’t run by middle school boys.
Also they are aiming for a woolly mammoth and have made a woolly mouse, which I’m not sure whether that was an accident or an intentional step toward the mammoth.
It’s on their list!
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Exvept they certainly did not. They slightly edited the genome of a modern wolf and called it a dire wolf. Just another “wooly mouse” stunt. Color me unimpressed.
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