cm0002@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agoScientists say they are close to resurrecting a lost species. Is the age of de-extinction upon us?www.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down13
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkScientists say they are close to resurrecting a lost species. Is the age of de-extinction upon us?www.cnn.comcm0002@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 days agoNo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·2 days agoThere’s no stopping this disaster at this point. It was nice being the dominant species. We now have definitive proof that human intelligence isn’t the net evolutionary positive we thought it was.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 days agoWe were alright until we got domesticated by wheat. “Oh look I make nice fibers for baskets, plant lots of me.” “Hey did you know that you can eat my seeds? Try it!” “No, that’s not spoiled porridge, it’s delicious beer!” “Alright, bitch, how you gonna feed everybody without me? Where you gonna get your beer from? Now get anxiety and sit in traffic.”
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThe longer con is that Earth needed plastic but couldn’t make it itself. Wheat is just a link in that long chain to get us to this point.
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
There’s no stopping this disaster at this point. It was nice being the dominant species.
We now have definitive proof that human intelligence isn’t the net evolutionary positive we thought it was.
We were alright until we got domesticated by wheat.
“Oh look I make nice fibers for baskets, plant lots of me.”
“Hey did you know that you can eat my seeds? Try it!”
“No, that’s not spoiled porridge, it’s delicious beer!”
“Alright, bitch, how you gonna feed everybody without me? Where you gonna get your beer from? Now get anxiety and sit in traffic.”
The longer con is that Earth needed plastic but couldn’t make it itself. Wheat is just a link in that long chain to get us to this point.