Don't get me wrong, the idea of bringing the Woolly Mammoth back from extinction (or hybridizing it with the Asian elephant) is amazing, but wouldn't it make more sense to focus this research on bring back a more recently extinct animal - like the Tasmanian Tiger - animals that still have a habitat to go home to. Woolly Mammoths wouldn't have an environment to thrive in. At the most, we would only see them in zoos.
I think you make a good point, if we have technology like this I think a more responsible application would be reversing some of the damage we've caused in recent history.
Don't get me wrong, the idea of bringing the Woolly Mammoth back from extinction (or hybridizing it with the Asian elephant) is amazing, but wouldn't it make more sense to focus this research on bring back a more recently extinct animal - like the Tasmanian Tiger - animals that still have a habitat to go home to. Woolly Mammoths wouldn't have an environment to thrive in. At the most, we would only see them in zoos.
I think you make a good point, if we have technology like this I think a more responsible application would be reversing some of the damage we've caused in recent history.