(EE) How Not to Save the Planet

The fantasy that we can bring back headliner extinct species may someday be technically feasible, but the impulse to do so illustrates a profound misunderstanding of the problem of extinction, and the relationship between species and habitat. Check out this story in Sunday's New York Times Magazine:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/magazine/the-mammoth-cometh.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0