Ardent environmentalists have been fulminating against world leaders for being lax and effete concerning curbing global warming.
As such, scientists around the world are now taking great pains to salvage the natural world as the world continues to languish in such a quagmire.
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Ineffable beauty in the world's southernmost continent of Antarctica.
Endearing penguins, seals...
First and foremost, we have always meddled with nature, as if we had a finger in every pie, despite the endeavour being fraught with peril.
Over the last 50,000 years, scientists have racked their brains to manipulate biology, in order for the creation of new organisms that never existed. Countless examples of these include members of the cruciferous family: kale, broccoli and cauliflower. And we also turned wolves into Boston terriers, which is a breed of small and active canine.
What's unbeknownst to many of us: more than 1 million animal and plant species are on the verge of extinction, and millions more are declining, like nobody's business - an inevitable corollary of climate change.
Seeing this through our own rose-colored glasses or living in cloud cuckoo land and believing this problem will be eradicated as time elapses is of no avail.
Pulling no punches, folks took to the streets in their countries during last week's COP26 summit, protesting against a lack of action by world leaders to cope with global warming in one fell swoop.
Knowing not setting sights on curbing climate change will by no stretch of the imagination shed light on the egress from the current predicament, a California-based non-profit biotech
company, Revive & Restore, started a programme with a view to saving endangered black-footed ferrets. A pivotal step in this project was the birth last year of a healthy black-footed ferret kit, Elizabeth Ann, a genetic clone of a ferret that passed away more than 30 years ago.
The introduction of her DNA came after scientists engineered resistance to enzootic plague into the genomes of black-footed ferrets by adding genes that evolved in domestic ferrets.
While synthetic biology offers us greater power to salvage the environment, there is word technology is by no means a panacea for watering down the cataclysmic climate change.
There is no denying that we are already changing the natural world in ways that far outstrip its ability to respond, making it ill-equipped.
A simple rule of thumb and the gist: Never cry over spilled milk and commit to going green right away. Try going vegetarian, walk more, thereby getting into the habit of walking, instead of driving to a destination that's a stone's throw away.
In light of formidable and insurmountable difficulties down the road and the bleak outlook, we must commit to working in concert, and in harness with environmentalists in our quest for a better world, a place where we, humans, share.
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