• ieightpi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I think my reasoning has more to do with keeping all of biodiversity with us. Why start over each time the habital zone moves, when we could just move it all.

    Obviously it’s easier moving a select group of living things. But who knows 🤷‍♂️

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      11 months ago

      Assuming we’ve “defeated” natural selection, or at least made it slower, humans will still be relatively the same. This is in comparison to the rest of life on Earth, which we assume will evolve at the same and/or faster rates as they always have. So the animals that you’re talking about “saving” will have spent millions - billions? - of years adapting to the slowly changing environment. Rapidly moving the earth would change everything - tides, gravity, the length of the days and years - would just result in mass extinction anyway.