S2:E34 - (Full Version) WE CAN NOW BRING BACK EXTINCT SPECIES, BUT SHOULD WE?

<p>Welcome to a very special episode of Animalia. Today we are talking about the merits, ethics, and potential outcomes good and bad with de-extinction. &nbsp;Earlier this year, a company named Colossal announced $15M in funding to create a new hybrid wooly mammoth species with plans of reintroducing them to Siberia in hopes of reviving their grasslands.</p> <p>Now that the dawn of de-extinction possibilities are upon us, we need to carefully consider how this could play out, and what the positive and negative impacts on our climate and biodiversity crises could be.</p> <p>We have three incredible scientists joining us for this roundtable discussion:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mackenziekwakparasitologist" target="_blank">Dr. Mackenzie Kwak</a> - parasitologist at the University of Singapore</li> <li><a href="https://www.caryinstitute.org/science/our-scientists/dr-david-l-strayer" target="_blank">Dr. Dave Strayer</a> - ecologist and invasive species expert at the Cary Institute</li> <li><a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lr3" target="_blank">Dr. Lynn Rothschild</a> - astro biologist and evolutionary biologist at Brown University</li> </ul> <p>This was a fascinating and enlightening discussion that you won't want to miss! &nbsp;</p> <p>------------</p> <p>If you have not yet done so, please join our weekly newsletter. It's totally free and every Thursday we will send you 3 stories designed to be consumed in under 10 minutes that will make you a more informed advocate for this planet and addressing our climate and biodiversity crises. &nbsp;Go to <a href="//www.joinanimalia.com/newsletter" target="_blank">www.joinanimalia.com/newsletter</a>.</p> <p>------------</p> <p>One short edit from Dave: In the podcast, he mentioned that humans have doubled the amount of reactive nitrogen on the planet, but he asked to correct this statement as such: that we've doubled the rate of input of reactive N on the planet (i.e., we now add as much reactive N as all natural sources combined). See Figs. 8.1