Cloning is a great idea, but I think we also need to work a bit on our fundamental relationship with the other life forms, minerals and fellow humans. For example: Man clones pigeons from old DNA. Pigeons crap all over everything. Man eradicates pigeons again along with wolves, coyotes, beers, cloned sabre tooth tigers, etc.
Things are changing though, so hopefully we can restore some balance and improve conservation.
Pigeons are crapping all over everything now. What harm would one more species do? No big loss for "beers" :-D
I guess I've got beers on the brain. Oh well, it's Friday, lol. :D
In all seriousness. We have wiped out thousands of species of animals and justify it but quoting Darwin in "survival of the fittest". Darwin was referring to the natural order of things. Man's interference is not the natural order of things.
Good point! Actually there are many examples of cooperation in nature as well. Some herd animals work together and take votes to figure out where the herd will roam. The natural order of things is difficult to see sometimes - our success depends heavily on our ability to communicate and cooperate together. I believe a greater shift towards cooperation and away from the scarcity driven mentality of "survival of the fittest" will help end the sixth mass extinction of life on this planet that we are currently experiencing.
Amen!