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Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.world 0 points 3 weeks 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.