Change to conserve? Genome editing threatened species

H. Winther; B.K. Myskja

Change to conserve? Genome editing threatened species

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H. Winther Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dragvoll alle 40, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

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B.K. Myskja Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dragvoll alle 40, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

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Seiten:: 273–278

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715509_045

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Dar Hadith al Hassania

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Genome editing could be used for saving threatened species or even reviving extinct species, preventing or reversing biodiversity loss, for instance by altering their capacities and making them fit a changing climate. This may be considered a paradoxical endeavour: artificially preserving wild species that are considered valuable due to their independence of human intervention. Can our responsibility to ensure the continued existence of threatened species be fulfilled in this paradoxical way? To examine this moral challenge, we take as point of departure Cora Diamond’s notion of animals as our fellow creatures. The significance of the otherness of animals pointed to by this term opens up a space for a virtue-based analysis of recent projects using genome editing to save threatened species from extinction. In particular, we elaborate on Hursthouse’s proposal that wonder and respect could be considered new moral virtues in environmental ethics. Using these virtues as a lens to examine the case of genome editing threatened animals, we bring Hursthouse in dialogue with Iris Murdoch’s concept of attention, which is concerned with proper moral perception of reality, and which implies a recognition of the otherness of animals. Changing basic characteristics of wild animals to preserve them as a species means altering that which made wonder and respect appropriate virtues. We conclude with discussing whether these virtues can be expressed by ensuring that interventions considered necessary are as minimally invasive as possible.

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EurSafe2024 Proceedings

Back to the future - Sustainable innovations for ethical food production and consumption

ISBN:: 9789004715509

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 03 Sep 2024

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