playing god

In the early 18th century, the feared British navy smashed a Prussian ship loaded with tapestries, coins, jewelry, and some priceless manuscripts. The booty, once presented to the kingdom, has been transferred in its entirety to the national archives in London. They remained there for centuries.

The most notable was gold. But centuries later, different botanists discovered that hidden among the books found was a much more important treasure, at least for them. It was a few acacia seeds from South Africa.

So when they asked for permission to transplant the seeds into the Kew botanical gardens, no one objected further. After all, how important was that? However, they were wrong because their intention was nothing more than to improve them.

The seeds were planted and a few days later the miracle happened and those ancient seeds, forgotten for centuries in an old book, finally bore fruit.

That’s why it doesn’t impress me too much these days, when some companies like the American multinational corporation “Colossal” are announcing that they will bring some extinct animals like the mammoth back to life by 2027. surprise. Genetically, as with those seeds today, I think it is more than possible to achieve this thanks to scientific developments and the high technology we have. However, in this case, the issue is the resuscitation of a sensitive animal with special needs and animal welfare.

At this point, no one knows under what conditions and where that animal might live. I don’t even care what to feed. The current world is unlike the one he lived in at the time, and in a world that tends to concretize and corner nature, it will need adapted spaces and new standards of living. So this whole race can only lead us to the abyss. Mankind does not know why and for what, but for years he has been determined to play God, and this devotion, a priori, cannot bring anything good.