Would You Agree with Cloning / Genetically Helping Endangered Species?

By Sir Topham Hatt
in Poll Station

 Share

Endangered Species  

31 members have voted

  1. 1. Should We Clone Endangered Species?

    • Yes
      18
    • No
      13

  2. 2. Should We "Grow" Endangered Species?

    • Yes
      20
    • No
      11

  3. 3. If a Species is Close to Extinction, Should we do Something to Save it?

    • Yes, we should save it.
      25
    • No, let nature take it's course.
      6

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

Sir Topham Hatt

Posted
Posted

Would you agree with cloning or developing endangered species?

For instance, Pandas. There are very few in the world. Mountain Leopards are also in very few numbers.

Obviously we couldn't clone all the animals as then surely genetically if they mated then the offspring would have problems, so if we're able to alter certain traits, should be in theory grow baby Pandas so there's more than only a handful alive?

Grand Master

Charisma Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted

What jakem1 said. Plus, if they can't mate and reproduce naturally, are we really helping anything by cloning them, presumably indefinitely? It's not really keeping the species alive in anything resembling a natural manner. If part of your third option is "allow them to sustain themselves naturally and stop interfering with their habitat", then (Y)

Grand Master

+Xinok Subscriber²

Posted
  • Subscriber²
Posted

Yes we should. If not for a matter of principal, then at the very least for the scientific endeavor. It would further scientific research and possibly develop new technologies that are useful to us.

Grand Master

+Ryster Subscriber²

Posted
  • Subscriber²
Posted

i don't think global warming caused by us and mass hunting once again caused by us is letting them go gracefully...

Not to mention de-forestation...

No, Humanity is the direct cause of many of these upcoming extinctions. Saying we should just "let them go" is outrageous. We broke it, we should fix it.

  • rajputwarrior
  • Like 1
Grand Master

Phouchg

Posted
Posted

i don't think global warming caused by us and mass hunting once again caused by us is letting them go gracefully...

No, Humanity is the direct cause of many of these upcoming extinctions. Saying we should just "let them go" is outrageous. We broke it, we should fix it.

That's arrogant and that's playing god. You don't have the faintest idea how to "fix" it, even by something as radical as cloning, yet you would try to help to silence your conscience.

I believe global warming was not caused by us. Certain pollutants do add to it to some degree, but didn't cause it. Scientists still don't know it themselves, I might add.

Mass hunting? Well, that's human behavior for you - the only species that kill other species for pleasure.

Destruction of various animals' native habitats? Changing of landmasses? Erosion of soil? How will meddling with cloning will help that? What, we'll lock a couple of cloned pandas in the animal prisons so as to show little Timmies that we "saved" some of them?

If there's anything that could possibly be done about, it's a drastic reduction of the amount of people. By some, let's say, 95%, for starters. We breed at an alarming rate - there's already more than 7 billion of hungry, long-living, consuming, uncaring human beings, and there's no stopping to them - soon there will be 8 billion and more and more.

And what about plants? Doesn't anybody care about them? They also become extinct and no one even knows about it. We already grow genetically modified crap, well, let's clone us some Amazonian rainforests then at the Central Park, for Harold's sake!

We ourselves are the only threat and the only thing we should ever interfere.

  • rajputwarrior
  • Like 1
Veteran

Daedroth

Posted
Posted

A good old moral dilema.

Personally, I think that we shouldn't clone animals that are close to extinction. Why? I just think that species have always become extinct, and we have no idea at what rate that has been over the past hundreds of thousands of years. Also, we don't know what species caused the extinction of another. For example, I'm pretty sure that in the Jurrasic period, some dinosaurs killed off all of a single species, and then moved onto another. Though this is only an uneducated assumption.

Yes, humans have pushed for large extinctions, such as the Amur Leopard and White Rhinosaurus for example by things like deforestation or hunting for jewelery. However we are just another species that have lived this planet. We won't last forever, neither will any other species...nothing does.

Grand Master

techbeck

Posted
Posted

No. Stop interfering with nature. Let them go gracefully. Haven't we done enough?

A lot of extinctions are not by nature. They are done by man.

With that said, species that died out naturally, I wouldnt be for bringing them back. There is a reason they died out. Now species that we are killing, sure.

Grand Master

shakey

Posted
Posted

Only clone if there is a good reason or rhyme to it. No point in cloning an animal that died off because it couldn't handle the planet.... But there is a point in cloning an animal that died off due to humans or other reasons, that is vital for the planet. Like if bee's all die off, cloning them would be great. Cloning a sabortooth tiger on the other hand, not so great.

Now, I would be all for a cloned animals zoo. Let's just not get carried away and start cloning **** to live out in the open, unless there is a vital use to the planet or man for it.

My biggest question... If I am cloned, would my clone think like me in every step of it's life.... or would it's decisions be different due to environment and other factors?

  • 2 weeks later...
Veteran

Dc'1

Posted
Posted

I think definitely, especially if it is because of humans killing them and not just natural selection.

I also think it would be a great idea to have zoo's have these animals, it'd be amazing seeing a Dodo or something in the zoo, well maybe a cooler animal but that's just an example lol.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.