Seed banks and zoos are excellent, yes.The solution to the event of ecosystems becoming crippled enough to cause problems to humans (problems of the material kind they actually care about) is ... well, when their ingenuity is spurred on by unproductive farming land or a perceptibly runaway greenhouse effect or whatever it is, some completely unexpected and fascinating solutions will become apparent. In the meantime, stop telling people to preserve things like tiger-filled jungles when nobody is concerned enough to want to pay for the jungle to be preserved. Somebody has to live near those tigers, without a good solid farm job to go to. This kind of regulation puts a brake (but only a brake) on environmental damage, and also puts a brake on creativity in general which would come in useful later in fixing the material damage, if any.
Anyway, yes, that was fun, thank you.
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Anyway, yes, that was fun, thank you.