Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn - eviltoast
“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.”
  • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’ve always wanted us to have a genetic Doomsday Vault, with the sequenced genome of every species. We can clone them from that.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      We are wildly far away from having the technology to do that. A single genome wouldn’t provide the genetic diversity for a sustainable population. We would need hundreds or thousands of genomes for each species to ensure that non-related individuals could mate.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        We absolutely have the technology, we just don’t have the money to gather the data. Or we haven’t chosen to allocate it.