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Re:An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs by mcpackieh on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:39AM (#36920760)
Well it was the guy I responded to who brought up veganisim as a solution in his top level post, but okay let's talk overpopulation. Axolotl have only ever been known to live in a few lakes which have almost entirely been obliterated by Mexico City, home to 10 million people. What exactly do you propose? Even if the population replacement rate in Mexico City were brought below 1, how many years would it take to depopulate the city? Short of forcing people out of the city at gunpoint (and to where, exactly?) how could you actually get the city depopulated in a reasonable amount of time to save the axolotl who might have a few years left at most? And how would this undo the habitat destruction which already occurred? How would you remove the structure of the city and restore the environment which it replaced decades+ ago?
Re:An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs by tweetle_beetle on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:08AM (#36929317)
> And how would this undo the habitat destruction which already occurred? How would you remove the structure of the city and restore the environment which it replaced decades+ ago?

Not an expert by any means, but, as I understand it, Lake Texcoco National Park[1] is a fairly radical project (given the tendencies of urban politics) to move towards answering those questions.

> The main objective of this project is to reclaim the site to a green infrastructure in the valley of Mexico City. Rather than returning the area of an intact ecosystem from before the Spanish colonization, the key is to create a complete balance between infrastructure and nature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Texcoco_Ecological_Park