Mammoth of a headache
Check this out. While this brings up several ethical and scientific issues, should there be a policy that runs this or should it be left private. If they actually pull it off, is it something that should be feared? The economics possibilites of having mammoths would be tramendous, and in a true free market nothing would hinder it. Now it may be just a joke in the end, but you never know, There is obviously an incentive to make this creature (people pay hundreds of thousands to hunt regular animals), imagine how much theyll pay to hunt a mammoth. Now i gurantee if this was planned in the US, the government would regulate it. With these new types of ideas that can have an impact on the enviroment to what extent should the government be involved and what aspect should they take, ethical, scientific or ecnomical; all would have varying results.
posted by Casey @ 3:03 PM
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I have to agree with Beth on that one. For a truely extint animal to come back, we would need to improve our methods. The idea is great, but until we have the knowledge our great "mammoth" will be nothing more than a glorified elephant.
As has been stated, even if they recreate the mammoth it would only be for a scientific leap and not to repopulate the earth with mammoths. It would simply be one of a kind and more than likely the only mammoth they recreate. Environmental issues won't be coming into play on this one.
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