{"id":1619,"date":"2013-03-15T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:28:50","slug":"the-dawn-of-de-extinction-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/the-dawn-of-de-extinction-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of De-extinction. Are you ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Throughout humankind’s history, we’ve driven species after species extinct: the passenger pigeon, the Eastern cougar, the dodo … \"A<\/a><\/p>\n

But now, says Stewart Brand, we have the technology (and the biology) to bring back species that humanity wiped out. So — should we? Which ones? ”<\/p>\n

Check out\u00a0\u00a0Stewart Brand’s TED \u00a0Talk here at<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stewart_brand_the_dawn_of_de_extinction_are_you_ready.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Is it the answer to every conservationist’s prayer?<\/p>\n

Or,
\nAs Barry Hillman\u00a0 muses in\u00a0 on one of\u00a0\u00a0the responses,
\n“Sure, we have a responsibility to un-do the damage we’ve done,let’s try to change our thinking and become a more caring society that has no need to damage our world and then we can spend more of our valuable and limited time on earth creating instead of repairing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s a follow-up here, a panel video discussion `hot off the\u00a0 press’ \u00a0from March 15th\u00a0 : \u00a0http:\/\/tedxdeextinction.org\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

(OUASSA students: You can now comment on our Blog-posts,\u00a0\u00a0but after clicking ` Comment’ box, you will have to sign-in using your Otago University login given\u00a0 to you at the January camp)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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