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Re:The Dire Wolf Is Back by red-iron-pine on Monday April 07, 2025 @03:50PM (#43615212)
> The dire wolf may not fill a valuable niche, but I believe it's at least plausible that herds of engineered woolly mammoths would have a positive environmental impact.

In a world that's rapidly getting warmer and more inhospitable to currently existing life, why do you think a wooly mammoth will 1) succeed at anything, and 2) have any sort of positive impact.

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Re:The Dire Wolf Is Back by aerostable_slug on Monday April 07, 2025 @04:15PM (#43615489)
The idea is that cold-resistant elephants / woolly mammoth - like creatures would restore arctic steppe grasslands and promote carbon sequestration. It's difficult to sum up in a sentence but there are quite a number of articles out there on it, and it doesn't seem like the most bonkers idea I've ever heard.

And, at the end of the day, the bespoke critters are visually compelling proofs of concept for tooling & technology that they can spin off and sell for more mundane purposes.

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Re:The Dire Wolf Is Back by freejazz on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @12:08PM (#43623349)
> The idea is that cold-resistant elephants / woolly mammoth - like creatures would restore arctic steppe grasslands and promote carbon sequestration.

Over what timescale? They don't seriously engage with this idea at all. It's total lip-service.

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