How much money was sunk in the Thylacine cloning attempt already? How
much land could have been set aside as a reserve for *living*
species? There are a few Tasmanian endemic marsupials which are now
on the brink of extinction, but conservation funds were squandered
for this inane Thylacine cloning project. Odds are that 1-2 taxa
won't make it to 2050, not the least because of the cloning project
which at a crucial time siphoned off funds.
I will not accept money as an argument, though, as long as people are
wasting hundreds of billions of US dollars per year on useless wars.
How many hours in Iraq, to pick the most prominent example, could the
thylacine cloning attempt have funded?
PS: I note that the Thylacine project received a nomination for the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Spoon_Award
finding itself in the dear company of homepathic "vaccines", "free
energy" generators and "empowered" water. That about says it all.
Ouch. :-)
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