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Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Other Climate Moonshots
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Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Other Climate Moonshots

Max Holmes, Jacquelyn Gill and Ross Andersen
Aspen Institute, 2017
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9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Scientific
  • Eye Opening

Recommendation

Why would humanity revive the long-extinct woolly mammoth? Atlantic senior editor Ross Andersen draws on the expertise of paleoecology professor Jacquelyn Gill and Arctic scientist Max Holmes in a panel about an unusual, extreme effort to fight climate change. getAbstract warmly recommends this innovative talk.

Take-Aways

  • The Arctic is warming much faster than the global average, threatening to release 1,500 billion tons of frozen carbon amid the melt. Mass extinctions are at stake.
  • Thus, some researchers pose the radical idea of restoring Siberia’s grasslands and bringing back the woolly mammoth to create and maintain them.
  • Arctic grasslands would reflect the sun’s rays and prevent warming better than the current forests do. And mammoths and other large animals would trample the snow, reducing the insulation that keeps the Arctic air from freezing the ground.

About the Speakers

Arctic scientist Max Holmes is deputy director of the Woods Hole Research Center. Jacquelyn Gill is a professor of paleoecology at the University of Maine. Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

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