It’s time we start to practice ‘de-extinction.’

Genetically reengineered elephants

would save the tundra. That is their distinction.

The herds would roam the Arctic

with its melting permafrost,

knocking down sun-stealing trees

where grassland has been lost.

The light-reflecting tundra

locks in carbon and methane.

Some bioethicists have called the idea insane.

But, what the hell, we’re splicing cows,

pigs, vegetables and fruit.

If woolies could stop climate change,

genetics becomes moot.