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Would you think it a good idea if we could produce specially genetically modified hairy elephants to populate the Arctic and save us from global warming?
If you DO this that please check in for therapy, urgently.
Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said it had created mice with “mammoth-like traits”. Colossal Biosciences’ eventual goal is to engineer mammoth-like creatures that could help stop arctic permafrost from melting.
Just how insane is that idea?
Here’s a bit more…
The Dallas company is trying to use ancient genetic material to create modern-day versions of woolly mammoths — a quest aimed at fighting climate change and advancing health care — and has raised $75 million from venture capitalists, the billionaire producer of ‘Jurassic World’ and Paris Hilton.
Yes, Paris Hilton has weighed in.
Of course we do not need “saved from global warming” as this is obviously a complete scam and secondly, creating hairy elephants and letting them loose in the Arctic seems a particularly dangerous idea! There is a delicate ecosystem in the Arctic and this would put that at serious risk.
Harvard geneticist George Church insists that the result would be “the cuddly version of a velociraptor. They’re vegetarian, they’re not threatening.”
“Church pictures herds of mammoths stomping down deep snow that insulates the ground, allowing the intense cold of winter to reach the permafrost so it can refreeze instead of melting away and releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. He expects the mammoths would also knock down trees, clearing the way for other large animals to follow along and pack down more snow. Entire landscapes could be transformed from forest into grassland, which Church said is more efficient at photosynthesis and sequestering carbon — although the science on that isn’t always straightforward.”
People like Church need institutionalised!
But isn’t in interesting that they link gene manipulation to climate change in order to try and sell it to us? This is how it works, they add lies to deceits and think we will buy it! To my mind, this is Frankenscience, and just because we can do it doesn’t mean we should do it. I also feel bad for the little mice these monsters use for such experimentation.
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