Pros And Cons Of De-Extinction

As humans pollute the Earth on a daily basis, some want to de-extinct animals—bringing back animals through scientific processes—however, results of this would be unpredictable and costly. De-extinction has many pros and cons. For instance, de-extinction is beneficial because it lets us study more about how those animals lived and, in a way, be payback for our reckless and unthoughtful actions back then. Yet, it can be consequential because the process costs much more than current attempts to protect endangered species, and there is no assurance that the process will have a positive outcome.

Initially, de-extinction, a process by which animals are resurrected, is a possible resolution for our irreversible actions towards animals. De-extinction

Liza In the presence of de-extinction, some questions that are raised are: where will they [resurrected species] go and will they be invasive species? Lester, a reporter for the Ecological Society of America, claims that due to pollution, it would be harder for de-extinct animals to survive in this day and age. All pollution has been a result of humans because "we’ve poured huge amounts of nutrients and toxins into the landscape" (paragraph 7). Furthermore, the cost of de-extinction is so great that it can be obsolete. For example, a wooly mammoth would cost about $10,000,000 just to develop the mammoth including materials and equipment (Wade paragraph 1). To add on, before extinction, there were about 500 to 1,000 mammoths. First, we would have to multiply the 500 to the $10 million, which is about $5 billion. Also, to find the cost of protecting resurrected species, we would need to find the cost of protecting elephants, their close relative (Shultz paragraph 3). One elephant costs about $109,257 times the 500 and add it to the $5 billion prior costs. Compared to the $1.7 billion dollars spent on endangered species, de-extinction is too expensive just for one species (Platt paragraph 2). As a result, de-extinction may have positive and/or negative side effects the are unpredictable and