Not … until … it’s …too … late.
Bringing back a 7-foot long Alpha predator is all well and good.
But you don’t call yourself Colossal Biosciences unless you’ve got bigger land animals to fry.
And these mad scientists have their sights set on larger game, indeed.
If all this seems to smack of a P.T.
Barnum, the company has a reply.
We are deciding what the future of these species will be.
Let’s address the massive, extinct pachyderm in the room, shall we?
Something to be constructed and deconstructed and constructed again to suit their mood.
From Mary Shelley’sFrankensteintoThe Substanceand every cautionary tale about mankind’s hubris ever told.
“Don’t you see the danger, John, inherent in what you’re doing here?
You read what others had done and you took the next step.
You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility for it.
This isn’t some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam.
[Woolly mammoths] had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.”
Having argued against de-extinction, allow me to totally contradict myself.
Yes, all this is true.
No more Endangered Species List.
No more PETA protests.
Sign me up for this.
So sincerest thanks to Beth Shapiro and Ben Lamm and all the gang over at Colossal Bioscience.
The dinosaurs can’t come soon enough.
But this is a heck of a good start.
