Should We Edit Nature to Help It Survive Climate Change?

A recent article in Noema magazines explores the issues in “editing nature to fix our failures.”

“It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive,” the article points out. “For about $2,000, I can go online and order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, and a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos…” So when going beyond the kept-in-captivity Dire Wolf to the possibility of bringing back…