Comments on: Someone has to decide which animals go extinct https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/ before I read the middle Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: aartichapati https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20277 Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:46:47 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20277 There was a podcast on this recently, I think Radiolab. Have you read The Wild Ones, by Jon Mooallem? You SHOULD!

]]> By: Athira https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20206 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:27:52 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20206 That is such a zany idea! I cannot even see that proposition being accepted for serious consideration. Cool article – I need to read it.

]]> By: litlove https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20200 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:06:53 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20200 Jenny, this is such a brilliant review. I think you should definitely be the person who leads the discussion among scientists. They need you!

]]> By: stitchesandmarginalia https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20187 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:55:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20187 Obviously I had to Google Chinese salamanders. They are kind of amazing.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20184 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:43:56 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20184 I am sure we would make the wrong decision from lack of information (or lobbyists, like, save the banana or the dairy cow or whatever) and screw it up. It would probably turn out to be some bacteria we needed to save, that started off the whole process or the system gets out of whack.

]]> By: Ellie Potten (@BlondeBookGirl) https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20176 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:12:58 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20176 Funnily enough, Jurassic Park is EXACTLY what I thought of as soon as you started explaining the rewilding thing. Compulsory movie night for those scientists please, before any history parks get underway. And if they DO happen, those fences had better be mother-fucking EVERYTHING PROOF. Electricity, backup electricity, extra backup electricity, barbed wire, the works. Possibly a moat could be worked in there somewhere. Just… noooooooooooope.

]]> By: NWK (@MumsyNancy) https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20170 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:29:37 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20170 Oh, JENNY. What did we to to deserve you? 🙂 I loved every bit of this review!

]]> By: Caroline https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20161 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:46:11 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20161 It’s awful, isn’t it? I’m reading Alan Weisman’s Countdown at the moment and he mentions this. I’ll go hunt for that essay now.

]]> By: Stefanie https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20160 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:17:03 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20160 Isn’t rewilding, er, wild? First time I heard about it in a book I read a few years ago I had a good laugh and, like you, wondered if the people who came up with had ever seen Jurassic Park. Before we consider bringing back mammoths, we should figure out how to keep our living elephants from going extinct.

]]> By: Alice https://readingtheend.com/2014/08/04/someone-has-to-decide-which-animals-go-extinct/#comment-20159 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:09:25 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=5677#comment-20159 I love that idea! Although, it does leave me imagining American’s hunting in the great plane as poachers do in Africa.

This is such an interesting subject, definitely one that’ll be on my mind for a while. It seems simple, but boy is it complicated. A sort of ‘we can’t please everyone’ situation.

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