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Do we really have to save those little non-stop drilling rats? My roommate had one and it chewed its way around the base board of her bedroom. #Condors on the other hand...#MorroBay #MorroRock
Yea but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they never stopped think about whether or not they should..and now before you even realize what you've done you want to patent it, and package it, and slap it on a plastic lunchbox and you wanna (slams fist on table) sell it! You're gonna (slams fist on table again) sell it!
I had an all out argument this past weekend that, humanity might go extinct and the earth will go on without us. It was met with, well, that's nihilist. AND YET, that person votes for policies that are detrimental!!! If THAT'S not nihilism I don't know what is.
Thing is, under a certain # of individuals in a population, is not going to recover the species. It's gonna lead to inbreeding and deleterious mutations and a homogenous population. It falls into an extinction vortex. It's a novelty but not a solution. And, it detracts from actual conservation efforts to preserve habitat, etc.
I would venture to go a little further. They crucified Kevorkian.....we are so compassionate that we will put down a beloved pet but yet let a human being suffer with a incurable disease and in pain....
We really should be having those conversations about protecting species before they become endangered. for one thing, it is hugely cheaper to protect a species when it is common and so prevent it from becoming rare, than it is to hold a species back from the brink of extinction once it has already gotten close to that edge.
The vaccine thing... Ferrets are actually the go-to animals for use when studying human repiratory viruses. I don't really remember why, but do remember someone who knew the details explaining why and it making perfect sense ;) So, yeah, it is sensible that the few black-footed ferrets still alive got vaccinated. We have sacrificed quite a few of their cousins getting to the point where we can make those vaccines, so fair.
Unfortunately this method will most likely never work for dinosaurs. Wooly mammoths sure. DNA degrades over time and after about 10,000 years is no longer useful for this purpose. Reverse engineering and selectively breeding birds is more likely to bring back dinosaurs.
In 7th grade, my daughter did a research project on the Prairie Dog. She was horrified initially that black footed ferrets are them. Mid research, she realized that the black footed ferrets were going extinct. It was an eye opening moment for her. They needed the ferrets to keep the prairie dogs healthy. By the end of her paper, it was more about conservation than prairie dogs. It was an excellent paper. She got a C in it because it was more about conservation than prairie dogs and her teacher was older and should have retried 10 years ago. She was devastated. She had never got a C before. I told her that she should be proud of that C. She learned so much about conservation and climate change. She wants to be a environmental engineer now.
Congratulations on your daughter's paper. BF ferrets can eat prairie dogs, and there are several different important predators that regularly feed on p. dogs too, in addition to humans that regularly exterminate them. Perhaps the teacher gave her a specific assignment on a species, and could have given her extra credit for the conservation focus. I seriously doubt that all "older" teachers are biased and should retire. Maybe try spell check before posting too.
There will be no Jurassic park. Not from "Dino DNA" anyway. Several paleontologists have spent the decades from the publishing of the book looking for it, and even found places it should be - T-Rex soft tissue without luck. It turns out that DNA doesn't survive for millions of years. Triggering atavisms in birds... now that's a different story.
I think this is kinda like the attitude about life insurance (not here to discuss the consept or need for life insurance I don't care enough to give it any consideration for the sake of this analogy) We kinda treat environmental concerns like people treat life insurance it's a another expenses "I could use that money and buy luxuries or invest/pay for other things" "I'm young I have plenty of time to make money" "it's not my problem when I'm dead" "I'm not going to die any time soon" disregarding that the possible struggles your family will have after your death or the idea that your end may come earlier. How will your family pay for your funeral? What if die while your kids are young how will your spouse handle it? Can they handle it? What if you and your spouse die? Can your kids handle it? What about the emotional, mental, and physical impact will they be able to afford to treat it? Will they be forced to live broken if they can't? We treat the idea of addressing environmental concerns like it's another expenses rather than an investment to alow our families to live a better life with or without us
Cloning opens up so many opportunities for humanity as a whole: Breakthroughs in medical tech, Food processing, and scientific discovery. With cloning tech, we could literally, take a singular cow that is the "ubermensch" of cows, and take it's genetic code, and just make the meat. Healthy, disease free, sustainable meat that no one would be able to tell the difference of. If someone loses a kidney, or an eye, or a limb, we can make a new one out of that person's own cells. We could change the way that factory farms function because we could "grow" food animal meat, instead of growing the animal for years, slaughtering it and sterilizing it. It would sanitize the farming and ranching industries because food products could be created without needing to mate, breed, raise, and vaccinate an animal. You could literally just grow the meat, and no animal would have to die, no PETA, no overburdened meat factories. Just, grow it.
Take a regular ferret, dip their feet in black dye, and Presto!, black-footed ferret! The condors aren't that easy but I could probably build one out of a vulture and small Cessna, not sure if it would lay eggs, however.
Sadly the discussions being had when we're destroying the planet are usually being had between the CEOs of the companies responsible and the politicians they own so it usually (if we're lucky) ends with the smallest possible regulation or countermeasure so long as said CEO can continue to make his profits. The American capitalist society is SOOOOOO short sighted its dooming our future generations for a few bucks now, and since they never have to pay any serious consequences even after doing something disasterous they've never even looked back in hindsight to think "maybe that was bad so lets go another anouther route". Instead they just keep stepping forward a billion $ at a time without any ability to to think in the TRUE longterm, not 5, 10 or even 50 years from now. Try at least 100 years or 1k. They can't be bothered to be concerned for their own kids' or grandkids' future on this fragile rock let alone their grandkids' grandkids. People say progressive plans like the green new deal would destroy our country but what that means is it'll mean higher taxes and less profits for the rich, well I'm all for the country being a little poorer (and I work part time for $10/hr) if it means employing policies and changes that'll hopefully buy us at least another 5-10 generations on a liveable Earth. Funny how earth has been in existance for billions of years and in less than 1/100th of that time humans have brought it to nearly uninhabitable with the majority of said damage occurring in roughly 125 years, smh
One issue not understood is diversity is not really understood. As our understanding of DNA gets better, once we can mathematically project and chart diversity, cloning will no longer be the term used to describe species recreation. Regenesis.
I'm personally enthusiastic about both using the tools we have for de-extinction but also using them to course correct climate change and devastation wrought by humans. It's absolutely worth discussing the ethics, dangers and practical concerns taking such steps pose. Scientists mostly seem on the ball regarding this, I just get worried when it becomes a question of making money.
Wait wait wait....diversity in genome.....Evolution. Good! Rings a mighty bell with free market capitalism. Yet an external force made this ferret almost extinct. However regulation has brought them back. Some help me please make the link here.
The test run of cloning has been going on for a while. Itâs kept secret in many places. I wonât put it pass them to be splicing the genes trying to make a better ferret, like they have done with our food. Thank them gene splicing fools for the increase in diabetes, cancer, obesity, and other food born allergies. Man/mad scientists are going to destroy this planet. One wrong gene slice as we can see from COVID-19 can wipe out the so call most intelligent being on this planet. For all of you who donât think COVID didnât have the scientific community hand and it, do some more research on line.
HEY!~ Beau, not Beau. A great person to talk about this with is Oliver Hauck, Head of the Environmental Law Dept. at Tulane Law School. He can explain concisely how/when laws in the south have been manipulated. Especially ask about the fight against aggregate damage to env.
If you want to know how AI could run amok, just look at capitalism. When you let a machine with one purpose (mathematical addition), in this case capitalism, make the bottom line decisions, you end up with the sustenance of life going to the back burner. We will not survive as long as capitalism is running (*ruining) things...
And the religious just keep praying, knowing that their god has given them âdominanceâ over this planet. That this is all âplannedâ so we humans shouldnât do anything but pray because THAT always helps so much.
The human race is already doomed if it continues to attempt to solve its problems with violence. It's only a matter of time. Glad I'm in my late 60s. I will miss the coming Mad Max era entirely.
I donât think those with money and power care what happens to earth or the people and other forms of life on it... I think they hope to leave on the rockets theyâre building once theyâve pillaged all they can here.
My ethical conversation is about eradicating the invasive species destroying more native species than any other on the planet ; Humans. I call for the complete eradication of this parasitic species for the sake of all other creatures that have managed to survive their onslaught. And good riddance.
Thank you so much for this video. I love you! I wish more people had empathy and realized how much damage we are doing. I have had others say to me things like, "I hate sharks. I don't care if they kill them all." I inform them that even if they feel that way, the fact is that the ecosystem needs them. If our oceans' ecosystems fall, it will destroy the largest area of the world that the air we breathe comes from. We aren't just killing off other species, we are killing ours, as well. On a side note, a friend of mine saw someone in a little convenience store around the corner from us who had their ferret with them. I wish I had been there so I could inform them that ferrets easily catch things like this from us. If you have a cold, you need to be super careful because ferrets can catch it from you and die from it. It's sad, but a lot of people who get them don't know that.
As a child in the â60âs I was walking along a creek bank in Wyoming and saw a small weasel-like creature running up the bank and through the willows. I later described it to my friend and his eyes widened and he said â You just saw a Black footed ferret, they are supposed to be extinct!â. There was no internet then and no cell phone cameras back then so we had no way to really research it and we just sort of forgot about it. Fast forward to the rancher discovering them on his ranch and I finally got to see a photo of one. I am certain that is what I saw as a child. I was very happy to know they werenât extinct and to confirm my sighting.
Condors used to be native to the Columbia Gorge on the border of Oregon and Washington. There were plans to reintroduce them into the Gorge in order to help save the species. Then they built the god damn wind farms. When I moved to the Columbia Hills in 2000, EVERY time I looked up, I'd see hawks and eagles circling in the sky. When I drove down the country road flanking the Columbia Hills, it seemed as if there was a raptor on every telephone pole and fencepost. Then they built the wind farms. The raptors vanished, totally vanished, exterminated by the blades of the wind turbines. And you know what? They never reintroduced condors into the Columbia Gorge. Gee, I wonder why.
I would not worry over much about the planet,if we keep this up the earth will just shake us off like water off a dog and will just continue on altered but not for long in a geological sense. We are the ones who are not essential for its continued existence.
Yes Beua, but like the British Safari Hunter in the movie you personally have the skills to protect yourself not everyone is equally well-equipped. LOL
The "we kill the planet" is viable since we endangered the atmosphere. We risk overheating the planet which means drinking water is getting scares which not only endangers us but most living creatures. Sure the majority of humans will die long before the planet becomes actually inhabitable for most creatures and us humans greatly diminished will slow down the process provided we don't find solutions to restore what we broke in the last 100+ years. Ok the PLANET will likely not break into bits and pieces and there are likely microbes that will survive in extreme conditions and might even start a second evolution and who knows with creatures who develop self-awareness and language and start this craziness all over again. Of coarse with salt water in thee oceans still in existence, plants may reclaim the deserts and earth will recover sooner than expected without us humans. Self-centered as we are: this wouldn't be our earth anymore. :)
Having been born in the mid 1900's and knowing that in a while I'll be exiting stage left relatively soon, it is my hope that those born after will take care to water the plants and see to the critters. Its a nice place despite all the mess, please enjoy it and care for it.
The absolute arrogance of humans believing we know what this planet is supposed to be, what animals deserve "saving" and which we let go extinct, what climate is "normal" and how "fault" is rendered. Climates change, species are born, species die out, and yet in our arrogant way, we believe we are in control of such things.
I have a degree in genetics and microbiology. These ethical questions have been discussed. In almost every class ethics was brought up by the teacher or student. Scientist don't have control over the world views or the masses... so we save what we can, inform who we can, and speak when someone is listening. A battle that we are loosing. :-(
and so much of the objections come in some fashion from the mystical believers. those like my father that believed that the earth is here to be used up by us and then the rapture would take all the worthy and leave earth behind. talk about weird shity thinking,... if that is the source of the ethics, then lets find something else like "keeping the planet for life" as a source of ethics,... so yup Beau I agree.
Waxing philosophically here, I'd say there is really one defining factor that results in the true progress of mankind since the days of H. erectus. When people work together, great things happen. When people work against one another, take for themselves and divide others to improve their own status, ....that which has been built up, degrades, crumbles and falls. Humanity is on a great threshold like none other in history. We have all we need, knowledge and capacity to work together to prosper and come into balance with our environment or lose it all. With balance achieved, there are few limits as to what can be accomplished. We can go out into the universe and spread life, consciousness and stewardship for lightyears in all directions. As it stands, we still have people that actively work to undermine basic truth, democracy and protections of the very home that gave us life. To roughly quote Beau of the Fifth Column, "We have to work towards Star Trek or we'll end up with Mad Max". Sound advise.
I know this may be off topic I commented on another video of his but does anybody else realize how much he sounds like heath ledgerâs joker he probably doesnât realize how talented he is
We should start cleaning bees đ, bees are the most important species for our survival because they pollinate plants on earth and therefore aid in human survival
When the highest ethical consideration is the preservation of something so vast as the ability for the planet to support life, can one argue eco terrorism - say against fossil fuel processing and distribution bottlenecks is unethical?
