Calling Chard: asparagus and leek risotto with chicken | SaltWire“Without extinction, there would likely be insufficient ecological ‘space’ available for new species.”
Human beings are uncomfortable with this fact because we feel guilty for accelerating the extinction of so many other species. Our attempts to make amends began with simple measures like nesting boxes for rare owls and wildlife bridges over busy highways – local fixes for local problems – but global warming requires more complex interventions.Consider, for example, the ringed seals of Lake Saimaa, the biggest lake in Finland.
Almost all the world’s shallow-water coral reef systems are now suffering bleaching episodes that leave them severely damaged or just dead. Given how many other environmental crises we are now facing, however, we could be excused for just letting the corals go.Extinction is not a measureless catastrophe, just the normal end-point in the evolutionary trajectory of the vast majority of species that have flourished on this planet. Whatever is lost will be replaced with something else, often something more interesting than its predecessor.
A second intervention is working on a sort of ‘coral IVF’ in which the goal is to ensure that a large proportion of the ‘gametes’ that are released into the ocean when corals breed actually take root.
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