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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next (www.livescience.com)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.